Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! The annual celebration of the mathematical constant π or pi, or the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter (and here I thought I would never get the chance to use 9th grade geometry in real life !). It falls on March 14, because pi written numerically is 3.14 … and then goes on forever because irrational numbers just roll.
In compliance with this hypocrisy, Google has hidden a greasy Easter egg in Chrome’s calculator. Search it to pull it up “Pi”, “pi day”, or simply “calculator” in Google. In the upper left corner, a few stars should sparkle around a pi symbol. Clicking on it causes a kind of “Simon Says” game, except with digits of pi: the calculator briefly shows the first three digits of pi, and if you get it right enter all the digits correct then do the same for the first four digits of pi, then the first five figures, and so on, and so forth. We played around with it a bit, which you can see in the poison below.
The calculator even records your ‘high score’, which I think is pretty sweet and will not lie. Reminds me of your old days of CoolMath4Kids.
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Presumably Google’s pi calculator game will continue ad infinitum like pi itself, but we have yet to test the theory. Feel free to see for yourself and let us know what you find out in the comments.