Pi Puns
Pi and Statistics
Pi Properties
History of Pi
Pi Universe
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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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Pi is often used as a symbol for what population parameter?
What is a population's proportion
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What is the definition of pi?
What is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
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Which greek pholisopher estimated pi by adding more and more sides to a polygon to approximate a circle?
Who is Archimedes
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What famous physicist has the same birthday as Pi Day?
Who is Albert Einstein
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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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Upper case pi is used to represent what mathematical glyph (or operation)?
What is a product of a sequence
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Pi is an irrational number. What is the definition of an irrational number?
What is a number that cannot be expressed as a ratio of integers (or a fraction)
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People tried for centuries to use a straightedge and compass to construct a square exactly equal in area to a given circle. What is the phrase for this conversion?
What is square the circle
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What university's fight song (colloquially named the "Beaver call") contains "E to the U du dx, E to the X dx! Cosine! Secant! Tangent! Sine! 3 point 1 4 1 5 9!"
What is MIT http://www.mitathletics.com/sports/w-crewlt/cheer
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This is a mathematician's favorite dessert.
What is Pi-napple Pi-e
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What is the PDF of the standard normal distribution?
What is (1/sqrt(2pi))*exp((-x^2)/2)
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What is a common fraction that estimates pi, first developed by Archimedes?
What is 22/7
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Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter “pi” its current mathematical definition?
Who is William Jones
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What is the name of the experimental, aerial art display where airplanes spelled out pi to decimal 1,000 places in the sky over the San Francisco Bay Area?
What is Pi in the Sky
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Who was the roundest knight at King Arthur's table?
What is Sir Cumference. He ate too much pi.
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The digits 0-9 are assumed to be distributed uniformly (n=1). Every possible permutation pair of digits is also assumed to be distributed uniformly (n=2). If all digit permutations of size "n" are proven to be distributed uniformly, pi could be classified as what type of number?
What is a normal number. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal_number
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Name the first 7 digits of pi's decimal expansion
What is 1,4,1,5,9,2,6
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What state famously proposed a bill to make the legal value of pi 3.2?
What is Indiana The bill did not pass
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What US city is in the zipcode 31415?
What is Savannah Georgia
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A pizza has a radius z and a thickness (height) of a. What is its volume?
What is pi*z*z*a
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What is the support for the von Mises Distribution?
What is any interval of length 2pi, or an interval of the unit circle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Mises_distribution
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Pi is not algebraic - that is, it is not a root of a non-zero polynomial equation with rational coefficients. What is the mathematical term for numbers with this property?
What is a transcendental number
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What is the current world record for memorization of the decimal places of pi?
What is 67,890 places, by Lu Chao It took 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite
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If you calculated the circumference of a circle the size of the known universe, requiring that the answer be accurate to within the radius of one proton, how many decimal places of pi would you need to use? (i.e., 3.14, or 3.1415, or 3.1415926, etc.)?
What is 39 http://scaleofuniverse.com/
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