A reader: “Having some knowledge of math I figured out why Monday is Pi

day. March 14th. first 3 digits of Pi = 3.14. But shouldn’t there be pi

minutes (and seconds though I don’t know pi to more than 5 decimal places)?

March 14 at 1:59 am and pm?”

Well, if you really want to get chronological about it, let’s take minutes

and seconds in the Babylonian style. I’ll allow you a 24-hour day, but from

then on it’s hexagesimal. The precise time on 3/14 corresponding to pi will

then be decimal 0.1592653589793238462643… expressed as a/24 plus b/1440

plus c/86400 etc., with the denominaotrs going up in multiples of 60 for

ever after. Unless I have screwed up the arithmetic, which would not be a

first, this works out to 3 hrs 49′ 20″ 31′” 37″” 15′”” 24″”” 56′””” 38″”””

24′”””” 11″””””…