Pi Approximations
This mathematician showed that one way to calculate the value of pi is to find the perimeter of polygons inscribing and circumscribing a circle and increase the number of sides of the polygon.
Who is Archimedes?
This is the formal definition of pi.
What is the "ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter?"
Writers of this long-running animated sitcom are famous for hiding pi references. The show has a disproportionate number of mathematician writers.
What is "The Simpsons?"
This state legislated the value of pi as 9.2376.
What is Indiana?
The most mathematically inclined reptile.
What are "pi-thons"?
The world pi-recitation record according to Guinness as of 2025 was approximately this number.
What is 70,000?
This quality of pi refers to numbers that are not the root of a non-zero polynomial with integer rational coefficients.
What is "trascendental"?
This equality contains the additive identity, the multiplicative identity, the fundamental circle constant, Euler's number, and the imaginary unit.
What is "Euler's Identity?"
This artist has a song about pi on the album, Aerial.
Who is Kate Bush?
This is the area of a circle with radius z and thickness a.
What is a "pi zz a"?
For the first time in 1949, a digital computer (ENIAC) took 70 hours to calculate pi to this many decimal places.
What is 2037?
German mathematician Johann Lambert famous is famous for proving this about pi in 1768.
What is "irrationality?"
The maximum height of this famous curve is equal to 1/sqrt(2*pi).
What is the "standard normal distribution"?
In 2024, researchers at this company set the record by calculating pi to 105 trillion digits.
What is Google?
The emotion you should feel towards your Math Club leaders.
What is a "pi-ety"?
Working in isolation in India, this mathematician produced many innovative and rapidly-converging series for computing pi.
Who is Srinivasa Ramanujan?
This formula proves that pi is an alternating series.
What is the Madhava-Liebniz formula?
Pi makes a surprising appearance in this problem that deals with the probability that a thrown needle will lie across a line between two strips.
What is "Buffon's needle problem"?
NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab uses only this many digits of pi for all interplanetary spacecraft calculations.
What is 15?
What is "Supercalifragilisticex-pi-alidocious"?
A type of this approximation method is to have a computer pick two random numbers, x and y, each between -1 and 1. If it does so N times, and if, for M of those times x^2 + y^2 < 1, then pi is approximately equal to 4*M/N.
What is a "Monte Carlo simulation"?
For many years, it has been conjectured but unproven that pi is normal in base 10. This is what normal means.
What is "every sequence of n digits appears with a frequency of 1/10^n"?
This is the probability that two randomly chosen integers share no common factors, expressed in terms of pi.
What is 6/π²?
This refers to the sequence of six 9s at the 762nd decimal place of pi.
What is the "Feynman Point"?
An ingredient in street Ecstasy pills.
What is "Methylenedioxybenzyl-pi-perazineous"?