{"id":10347,"date":"2026-03-14T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=10347"},"modified":"2026-03-12T20:17:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:17:22","slug":"its-pi-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=10347","title":{"rendered":"It’s Pi Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Here I am with my oldest son, Mark, celebrating last year’s Pi Day at the Pi Bar in Colorado Springs. (Note the pot pies!) He’s sporting his pi cufflinks, and I’m wearing the shirt that shows the 6-digit version of my birthday, 121346, occurring about 5.3 million digits into the decimal expansion of pi.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I reprise what I wrote last year…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it important that my birthday sequence occurs 5.3 million digits into the decimal expansion of pi? Not at all. But pi is important for a variety of mathematical reasons<\/a> as I have written about before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pi is also a reminder about truth. Some things are true, and your opinion and mine don\u2019t matter. \u201cI think pi should be 3.1 (or 3.2 as the state of Indiana tried to legislate in 1897).\u201d Nope. Doesn\u2019t work that way. Neither do boys identifying as girls or the other way around<\/a>. On a television talk show, a panelist said something like, \u201cParents are understandably upset that their daughters are forced to compete against boys.\u201d To which another panelist said, \u201cThey\u2019re not boys!\u201d Uh\u2026yes, they are. Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling, not a believer as far as I know, took a lot of heat for saying something like, \u201cYou don\u2019t get to be a woman by declaring yourself to be one.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So enjoy a pot pie or piece of pie on Pi Day and remember, there is such a thing as truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are a king, then!\u201d said Pilate. Jesus answered, \u201cYou say that I am a king. In fact, the reason I was born and came into the world is to testify to the truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me.\u201d \u201cWhat is truth?\u201d retorted Pilate. (John 18.37, 38, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. (John 1.17, NIV)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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