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A pair of New York state high school teachers said they held their math-infused wedding on the day set aside to commemorate irrational decimal pi.
Audra Smith, 25, and Joseph Ahl, 24, math teachers at Fairport High School, said they held their wedding on March 14 -- also known as 3.14, or Pi Day -- because, as their wedding invitations said: "Love is like Pi, natural, irrational and very important," the Rochester (N.Y.) News and Democrat reported Tuesday.
Smith said holding the wedding on Pi Day was her students' idea.
"I love the kids (and) I absolutely love math. I find it fascinating," she said.
The couple said they met their freshman year at State University College at Geneseo, N.Y., when Ahl was studying his calculus book while doing laundry.
"The big pickup line was 'so who's your cal teacher?'" Smith said. "And that's when we started talking."
Adorable.
Do you think you'd pick a date important to both of you for your wedding, or would you rather pick a date with nice weather and minimal scheduling conflicts?
Bonus question: how many digits of pi do you know off the top of your head? I know 30.
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Aw, that's really cute!
I'd probably be practical about it and pick a day with nice weather & that works for most people.
& I suck at math, and only know the 3.14 part :P
I think that's a really cute idea. I would want it to be warm outside because I would like to have an outside wedding. I haven't really given my wedding much thought.
That's... dedicated. Or crazy, depending on how you look at it (though as the article noted - it's irrational.)
i know three..
Haha, how cute <3
haha that's hot. i know 40 or so
Darwin Day, maybe.
for a second there i thought that they got married on 3.1409... but i googled pi its 3.1415 so if they would have waited 6 more years it would have been cooler. hahaha.
awww that is so cute!!!
That is so cute!
I know about 8! xD
3.14159...and yeah, that's it :D
THIS STORY IS AMAZING<3
As much as I despise math itself -- math + love = WIN.
OH my gosh, that is the cutest frickin' thing EVER!!!!!
Then again, I was a math major, lolz. Sadly, I still haven't found that nerdy special someone.
I hope they had awesome pies at the reception and lots of cheesy math jokes in the speeches. *sigh* So romantic.
I think I would aim for a special day for the both of us... or just aim for a day with nice weather and minimal conflicts. I'm not sure if I would want an outside wedding though... I think I would like an indoor wedding and then have the reception outside or something. I know nine :D 3.14159265
my physics teacher once gave out extra credit for how man numbers of pi we could recite by memory- I'm now at 50 numbers because of that... my ex from the time, I kid you not, had a photographic memory, smartest kid ever (astrophysicist), memorize somewhere around 475 (and did it for an acadeca competition later that year)
Lol xD ! That's really cute :3 .
I don't really care for dates ^^; , but I like even numbers. So anything from 2, 10, 16, 14, 24 lol. Weather counts big time, even if it's a indoor wedding or not. Odd numbers make my brain fidgety >>; .
I'm horrible at Math, and I'm Asian :/ ! I killed the sterotype.
That is absolutely adorable =]. I think setting a cute date is important, but just for story-telling opportunities. As long as the date is significant to the couple, it doesn't really matter if the rest of us remember.
I only know...10 digits. Le sigh.
Lol, I have a nerdy guy friend who asked my girl friend out on pi day, haha.
Awwwww that's so cute. :D
Ah! I love 10 minutes from Fairport!
aw that's is so cute! haha i thnk i'd probably pick sometime when it's nice out kind of thing. unless we both want to decide on something else. by we i mean me and the guy i end up with :)
cute :] i only know 4 numbers of pi - after the decimal =_=
Hehe, I love this! I'm too practical, so I'd probably just pick one that was convenient.
I only know around 15 digits off the top of my head, alas.
i would wanna get married on my anniversary. <3
That's so cute =)
I would pick the summer solstice, but my parents already got that day, and I'd feel weird about doubling up. Some time in May, I guess, since May is my favorite month.
Let's see, I know... 3.1415926, so 8 digits.