Video: Shop gives out pies for Pi Day

Most came out for the pie, but clearly they had Pi on their mind.

Hundreds came out to Petsi Pies' two locations in Somerville and Cambridge, Mass., on Friday for Pi Day, which celebrates the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.

Pi is an infinite number, but for each customer who could say 10 numbers, they received 10 percent off a small pie. A few customers rattled off 100 digits, meaning they received a free pie.

Damian Mason and his girlfriend, Alicia Woodley, a Harvard law student, each recited 100 digits of Pi and got a free pie. Mason said he memorized everything that morning, and Woodley created a poem to help her memorize it.

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