I'm not really a pi fanatic or anything. Shortly after I bought one of my 1st PCs I did some playing around with calculating pi out to many places. This would have been mid 80s. As I recall it tooks days or weeks to calculate out to a million places on the hardware of the day. For some reason, just because, I printed out to a million digits on continuous paper on a dot matrix printer. As I recall it took several days to print. Thinking about it the amazing thing was that the printer printed for that long without jamming. I still have this printout. I have the file, "pimillion dot html" available here if you know how to put the filename in the url.

Years later a friend gave me this Pi dish;

Years later another friend gave me a t-shirt with the Pi symbol on it.

Recently I acquired another t-shirt, the octopi;

Well with all this much ado about Pi I decided I "needed" a Pi domain. One immediately recognizes that the "3" should be in the host field of the FQDN, so that it appears nicely as "3.14159" as it ought to, instead of "314159".

Well 3.1.com is too short, not recognizeable as Pi nor is it a valid domain name. How bout 3.14.com? Taken. 3.141.com, taken. Didn't take but a minute to figure out that the shortest representation of Pi that was available was 13 digits. So I grabbed it and here we are.

Recently my 12 yr old godson and his classmates have begun memorizing digits of Pi. He's up to 50 at last check. This motivated me to finally memorize this domain name so I now can recite Pi out to 13 places. :-)

Ok so that's it. There are no other links here or anything else.

Cheers,
mike at makuch dot org