"Pi," I said, dutifully, or its first three digits, anyway.
But his exchange, the first three digits of his telephone number, is 347.
He is the undisputed father of the first three digits in the code.
March 14th gives 3.14 (the first three digits) and so today is an opportunity to delight in all things pi.
The celebration is held annually on 14 March, because 3/14 spells out the first three digits of π, or pi, which is 3.14.
Mr. Moon's contribution, Mr. Anderson said, was actually the first three digits of the ZIP code, the part that refers to general region of the country.
That helped them figure out the first three digits of each Social Security number, which the government had assigned by location.
So how does Craig Kayser, an up-and-coming literary agent, expect to succeed when the first three digits of his office ZIP code -- 113 -- betray his base in Woodside, Queens?
Writing today's date in the US month/day format gives the first three digits of pi and in 1988, led by physicist Larry Shaw, staff and visiting members of the public at the San Francisco Exploratorium marched around a circular space to celebrate.
The article included an entire conspiracy thread I'd missed, involving the first three digits of Obama's Social Security number; according to the Globe, "a source said it's 'part of an elaborate scheme to conceal that he is not a natural born U.S. citizen".
If you tell people to write down the first three digits of their phone number and then ask them to guess the date of Genghis Khan's death, they will be more likely to put it in the first millennium, with a three-digit year, than those who are asked without the preliminary.
