[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 44 (Tuesday, March 12, 2024)]
[House]
[Page H1136]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                 PI DAY

  (Mr. FOSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FOSTER. Madam Speaker, I rise today to celebrate March 14, 3.14, 
or Pi Day.
  Pi is a Greek letter, and in mathematics it is a symbol for the 
number that you get when you divide a circle's circumference by its 
diameter.
  Many people approximate pi as 3.14 or 3.14159 or 3.159265, and on and 
on, but the number is irrational.
  Madam Speaker, if you try to write down the exact number for pi, 
there would be infinite numbers to the right of the decimal point, and 
there would be no discernible pattern. That means we are down to an 
infinity number of digits to be found.
  There is so much new math to be discovered.
  Mathematics is critical to everything that we do. It is the language 
of science, and it is the language of engineering and technology.
  So amidst all of the irrationality that we see before us in Congress, 
let's celebrate a little of that irrationality on March 14 and 
celebrate Pi Day.

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