Pythagoras
History of Pi
Interesting Facts
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a Greek philosopher and mathematician
who was Pythagoras?
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By what year were the first 100 digits of pi calculated?
What is 1701
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How many years has the symbol for Pi been used?
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Pythagorean theorem and Pi
what did Pythagoras invent?
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How would one use pi?
What is 1) electrical engineers used pi to solve problems for electrical applications 2) statisticians use pi to track population dynamics 3) medicine benefits from pi when studying the structure of the eye 4) biochemists see pi when trying to understand the structure/function of DNA 5) physicists looking into the behavior of fluid ripples see pi and use it in their calculations 6) clock designers use pi when designing pendulums for clocks 7) aircraft designers use it to calculate areas of the skin of the aircraft 8) signal processing and spectrum analysis (finding out what frequencies are in the wave you are using) uses pi since the fundamental period of a sine wave is 2*pi. 9) Navigation, such as global positioning (GPS)
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666
The first 144 numbers of pi add up to what number?
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530 BC
what time period did Pythagoras live in?
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How would one calculate pi?
What is drawing a perfect circle and measuring it's circumference and diameter and using the ratio.
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a stress test
Computing pi is what kind of test for a computer?
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Pythagoreans
what were his followers called?
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Who were one of the first people to discover and use pi?
What is Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians
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Albert Einstein (3/14/1879)
Which famous scientist was born on Pi Day?
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science and math
What other topics did Pythagoras contribute to?
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How is pi determined?
What is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter?
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Archimedes of Syracuse
Pi was first rigorously calculated by one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world. Who?
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