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People of Pi
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This is what you call a mathematician that takes over a ship.
What is a pi-rate
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This is the circumference of a circle with a diameter of ten inches.
What is 31.4 inches
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Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to this measurement.
What is the diameter?
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This is the formula to find the circumference of a circle
What is Pi times the diameter
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Albert Einstein's birthday
What is March 14?
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This is what a mathematician needs to fly his plane.
What is a Pi-lot's License
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This is the circumference of a circle with a radius of four centimeters
What is 25.12 centimeters
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This is a number that cannot be expressed as a fraction of two integers.
What is an irrational number?
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This is the formula for finding the area of a circle
What is radius time radius times pi
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He is credited with determining a remarkably accurate approximation of pi in Ancient Greece (200 B.C.).
Who is Archimedes of Syracuse?
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This is a mathematician's favorite dessert.
What is Pi-napple Pi-e
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This is the diameter of a circle with a circumference of 28.26 ft.
What is 9 ft.
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Pi got its name from the Greek word for this
What is perimeter
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Given the circumference, this is the formula to find the diameter
What is circumference divided by pi
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The English mathematician who introduced the symbol for pi in 1706.
Who is William Jones?
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This is what a mathematician does with her papers
What is make a pi-le of papers
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This is the area of a circle with a diameter of four inches
What is 12.56 square inches
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The number of digits we now know of pi, thanks to modern computers.
What is 10 trillion?
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Given the circumference, this is the formula to find the radius
What is circumference divided by pi divided by two
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The person who popularized the use of pi in 1737. (Hint: Not the same person who introduced the symbol)
Who is Leonhard Euler?
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This is what the mathematician put into her gourmet cookies.
What is s -pi-ces
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This is the area of a circle with a radius of five centimeters
What is 78.5 square centimeters
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The structure that was built by the Ancient Egyptians using calculations based on pi.
What is the Great Pyramid of Giza?
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Given the area of a circle, this is the formula to find the radius
What is the square root of the area divided by pi
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The "father of calculus" who calculated pi to at least 16 decimal places (15-16th century)
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
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