My beloved problemees,

I am pleased to see that there has been a lull of business over the past couple of days. Both for me and for some of my evil competitors. This must mean only one thing - that my advice has been paying dividends.

So in the absence of individual problems, I have been doing some investigations purely for fun. I thought i would share one with you:

Since we last spoke it was pointed out to me that on Tuesday of this week, the world celebrated PI day!

Fear not, you have not missed anything, for this was not a day of Hugh Evans congratulatory speeches.

In fact it is in celebration of the long-standing and well-known mathematical anomaly, Pi

I did a little research into Pi:

Dictionary.com defines Pi as "A transcendental number, approximately 3.14159, represented by the symbol, that expresses the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and appears as a constant in many mathematical expressions."

Millions of digits have been calculated, with the record held (as of September 1999) by a supercomputer at the University of Tokyo that calculated 206,158,430,000 digits.

Here are the first 1000:

3.1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989

In American numerals the 14th March can be read as 3.14. The first three digits of Pi.
Hence Pi day.

There is also Approximate PI day (no - not The Oracle's birthday) which is the 22nd July: 22/7 = 3.142857.... So stock up on the fireworks and party hats for that momentous occasion!!

I think I am going around in circles here so I will wrap up.

Hopefully everything is now clear but if it isn't and I have caused people some confusion or un-related issues that may not be self-solveable. That is why I am here. I look forward to your enquiries.

Until the next time we cross paths.

Hugh Evans (PI)