Happy Pi Day

A Pi Day Celebration with Margaret and Timothy from The Secret Life of Pi March 14th — 3.14159... Margaret is a senior software engineer. Timothy is her junior colleague. They work in a grand Victorian library in London — the kind of place where old mysteries and new discoveries share the same shelves. Today is the 14th of March. Margaret has been waiting for it. The Number on the Chalkboard Timothy arrived to find something unusual. Margaret had pulled a small chalkboard from the storage room — the kind with a wooden frame and a little groove for chalk dust — and propped it against the fireplace. On it, in her precise handwriting, was a single symbol. π "You've decorated," he said. "I have marked the occasion," she said, pouring tea without looking up. "Sit down, Timothy. Today we are not talking about code." He sat. "What are we talking about?" She set a cup in front of him and looked at the chalkboard with something that could only be described as fondness. "The most remarkable numb