The rarest Pi Day of them all

First things first, Happy Pi Day. Huzzah! Please do commence with the celebrating and the carousing.

So why is this Pi Day special? Well, here’s the first 9 digits of Pi (9 digits past the decimal):

3.141592653

In the US, this translates to March 14th, 2015 (3.141592653). At 9:26 and 53 seconds, which occurs both this morning and tonight, we’ll match all 10 digits. And that only happens once a century.

And just to embrace the math geekery further, adding more digits to the analysis only impacts the precision of the 53 seconds. Here are the first 50 digits of Pi:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

As you can see, Pi skews closer to 9:26:54, so if you are a rounder, that’s the moment to pop that bottle of champagne.