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Pi Day Syndrome 

The feeling of anger, stupidity, and loss when someone feels alienated for not being able to participate in casual conversations with their geeky colleagues and friends, who never stop cracking and sharing pi jokes and factoids on mathematics’s most beloved day of the year.
Guesstimate how percents of math-anxious folks worldwide suffer from the Pi Day Syndrome to some degree, without being consciously aware of it.
Pi Day Syndrome by Fasters July 17, 2023
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American Pi Day 

March 14th. It's American Pi Day because of the way dates are written in in the American style, with the month preceding the day. In countries that write the day preceding the month, Pi Day is more properly celebrated on 22nd of July.
Albert Einstein was born on March 14th. He had to move to America in the 1930s in order to take advantage of it being American Pi Day there.
American Pi Day by DrEnglish March 14, 2010

Anti-Pi Day 

A hands-on educational event for math-anxious students and adults that would offer them some fun non-symbolic things to do on Pi Day—a mathematical equivalent of an anti-Valentine’s Day for singles.
To empathize with tens of thousands of kids who feel left out or alienated on Pi Day, a Singapore NGO is organizing a “Anti-Pi Day” concert to boost their low self-esteem in math.
Anti-Pi Day by Fasters May 22, 2023

Little pi day 

July 22. Called little pi day because of the approximation of pi 22/7.
Little pi day pales in comparison to actual pi day.
Little pi day by nilethe146 August 19, 2014

Pi Approximation Day 

An annual math event that is commemorated on 22nd July (22/7) among billions of people worldwide, who conventionally write their date in the DD/MM/YYYY format, compared to the millions of folks who celebrate Pi Day on March 14 (3/14).
What is the ratio of the number of math students and teachers globally who celebrate Pi Approximation Day in July to the number of those who commemorate Pi Day in March every year.