Perhaps Pi Day Should Be 8/14, Not 3/14

An amusing tidbit, from HuffPo:

The U.S. population has reached a nerdy and delightful milestone.

Shortly after 2:29 p.m. on Tuesday, August 14, 2012, the U.S. population was exactly 314,159,265, or pi (π) times 100 million, the U.S. Census Bureau reports. The U.S. Census Bureau's Population Clock projects the real-time size of the U.S. population based on monthly population estimates.

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Alright that's pretty cool. I'm going to have to tell my math teacher that...

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