Sorry everyone, that viral Pi Day pic from the Colorado Rockies isn't real
The Colorado Rockies are feeling tricky this Pi Day.
On the 14th day of the third month of the year, also known as Pi Day, the Major League Baseball team seemed to line up in perfect order to nail pi 29 decimal places out:
That's 3.14159265358979323846264338327 arranged on the backs of their purple uniforms.
Or so it seems.
Everyone loved the picture. The Washington Post even wrote up a cute piece on how the Rockies won Pi Day with their "delightfully nerdy" photo. Everyone on Twitter couldn't get enough.
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But the Rockies let us know that the image is Photoshopped, which makes sense with their cheeky caption, "What are the chances!?"
If you just look up to the team's background image on their Twitter page it's the same exact photo. Except in the original version, the uniform numbers don't exactly read out pi to the 29th digit anymore.
Also, in the altered photo there's an erroneous "8" at the end since the 30th decimal place should be a "9," so we should have all known something was up.
But no matter its veracity, it's still a fun celebration of the infinite ratio between a circle's circumference and its radius. Happy Pi Day!
Sasha is a news writer at Mashable's San Francisco office. She's an SF native who went to UC Davis and later received her master's from the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She's been reporting out of her hometown over the years at Bay City News (news wire), SFGate (the San Francisco Chronicle website), and even made it out of California to write for the Chicago Tribune. She's been described as a bookworm and a gym rat.
