In which I tell you what Pi Day is all about

I should probably tell you what Pi Day is all about, so I will! And yes, the film itself is called Pi Day, not Pi Day: The Movie. (Sidebar warning) I hate titles with ": The Movie" in them, as if the marketing team thinks that the audience doesn't know what they're watching. Same thing with books that have "A Novel" splashed across them.

It's a novel? Really? I thought it was a cleverly disguised lamp! 

Anyways, Pi Day. The day itself is an actual (though unofficial) holiday, where math geeks the world over celebrate the great number Pi. Pi, as you may remember from grade 5 math, is 3.14159..... and so on until infinity or Dick Clark dies, whichever comes first. It represents the ratio of a circles circumference (the distance around the circle) to its diametre (the distance across the circle). It is also a trancendental number, which means it cannot be expressed through any combination of mathematical equations, and it is irrational, which means it never ends. So, long story short, Pi is relatively unique, widely used, and sounds like tasty food. Which is why, on the 3rd day of the 14th month at 1:59 pm (3.14159, remember?), math people sit down and celebrate by eating delicious pie.

Pi Day (we're talking about the film now) is about two high-school math geeks who are celebrating Pi Day when their pie is stolen by the rival math team from across town, who believe in Pi day on a different day! Pi as a fraction used to be represented as 22/7 (which is now known to be incorrect) and as such this other math team, known as The Fractals, celebrate Pi Day on the 22nd day of the 7th month, and they hate anyone who thinks otherwise.

Our math-geek heroes have less than 15 minutes to dash across town, rescue their pie from the evil Fractals, and get home by 1:59 to celebrate Pi Day in peace. Will our heroes succeed, or will their pie be mocked and destroyed by those treacherous heathens?

You'll find out soon enough. Especially if you come to the screening on April 26th! *cough* Sorry, had a shameless plug stuck in my through *cough cough*.

It's a simple story, but I like them better that way - keep it simple, stupid!

For more about Pi, including lots of 2 dollar words that need a degree to pronounce, check out the link to Pi at Wikipedia on the sidebar to the right.