March 14 – International Ask a Question Day

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n“IfnI had an hour to solve a problem and my life depended on the answer,nI would spend the first 55 minutes figuring out the proper questionsnto ask. For if I knew the proper questions, I could solve the problemnin less than 5 minutes.”

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nItnwas Albert Einstein, who has been called the “QuintessentialnQuestion Asker.

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nInnorder to honor Einstein – it’s his birthday!

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nEinsteinnalso said: “Question everything!” 

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nAndn“The important thing is not to stop questioning.”

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nThenpeople promoting International Ask a Question Day remind us that “Great answers begin with great questions.”

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nPinis the ratio of the distance around a circle to the distance acrossnit. To figure out pi, you divide the circumference of a circlen(that’s the distance around it) by the diameter of the same circlen(that’s the distance across it).

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nA really large circle has a largencircumference and a large diameter; a really small circle has a smallncircumference and a small diameter. But you know what? In both cases,ndividing the circumference by the diameter results in the samennumber.

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nThenexact same number.

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nNonmatter how enormous or miniscule a circle is, that division problemnresults in a number that starts:

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n                3.14159265358979323846264338327950288…

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nand then goes on andnon, apparently forever, in a non-repeating decimal.

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nTonmake it easier on ourselves, we often round this unwritable number asn3.14. And to make it EVEN easier, we just call it “pi.”

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nTodaynis Pi Day in the U.S. because it is 3-14 (March 14), which looks annawful lot like 3.14!

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nByneating pie, of course!

Somenpeople wear pi t-shirts, attend pi parties at universities or sciencenmuseums, or even write songs about pi!

Googlengets it, and so do the people at Wiki How. 

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nSummernDay in Albania
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• n Marchn holidays 

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• n Historicaln anniversaries in March

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• nHistoricaln anniversaries in April

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