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American pi: US population reaches 3.14159265 times 100 million

By: Agence France-Presse
August 15, 2012 7:07 AM

InterAksyon.com
The online news portal of TV5

WASHINGTON DC - The US population reached a number dear to mathematicians on Tuesday: 314,159,265 or pi times 100 million.

"So go out and celebrate this American pi," quipped the US Census Bureau's chief demographer, Howard Hogan, in a statement marking the milestone.

"This is a once in many generations event," Hogan added in the release that reminded readers that "pi is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter."

The landmark was reached shortly after 1829 GMT.

 

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