NATIONAL PI DAY. No, not the kind of pie that you eat, instead March 14 is reserved each year to recognize the first three digits of the mathematical constant 3.14. Falling on Albert Einstein’s birthday, Pi Day is celebrated by math fans all around the world.

The largest online homework help community, Brainly, surveyed 900 American students about math and Pi finding that math is not as universally disliked as most cliches would suggest.

In particular, when students were asked to select their favorite subject in school: 26.4% preferred Math, 20.3% preferred Science, 20.1% selected English and 18% chose Social Studies or History, according to the Brainly survey.

The Brainly survey delved a bit deeper, and it turns out that of the 900 students surveyed across the country 74% believed they knew how to write the number for Pi. Unfortunately, only 55.3% of students could accurately identify the first five digits of the mathematical constant and 34% chose the wrong sequence of numbers.

The survey also took a look at the top states where Math is a students’ favorite subject with New Jersey taking the top spot at 41.7%. Massachusetts came in a close second with 41.6% of students choosing Math while New Hampshire landed third at 37.6%.

Here are a couple historical facts about Pi to impress your friends with today: The value of pi was first calculated by one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world, Archimedes of Syracuse between the years 287 and 212 BC. As for the Greek letter which represents the mathematical constant, it was first baptized when William Oughtred called it as such in his works dating back to 1647, however it wasn’t until Leonhard Euler used the symbol in 1737 that the Greek letter was embraced by the scientific community.