Mathematics Behind Pi
How many digits are in pi?
infinite
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14) What time does the official celebration begin?
1:59 PM
What letter is pi of the Greek alphabet?
16
Who discovered the number pi?
Archimedes
On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?
Floor Pie
True or False? Pi has been memorized to more than 120,000 digits.
False
What year was the first Pi day celebrated?
1988
What is the "formal" definition of pi?
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
What famous scientist was born on Pi Day in 1879?
Einstein
What portion of Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves?
1 in 5
What type of number is pi described as?
An irrational number
What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?
Mails its acceptance letters
Among the digits of π currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?
0
Who adopted "π" as the symbol for pi?
Euler
Can the exact value of pi ever be calculated?
No
What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
3.1415926
The symbol for pi was introduced in the last _____ years.
300
Which number appears most in the first 6 billion decimal places of Pi?
1
Who was the first group to find a value for Pi?
Babylonians
Approximately how long would it take to recite the value of Pi?
133 years of non-stop recitation
If you multiply Pi by the square of the radius of a circle, what do you get?
The circle's area
How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?
29
People tried for centuries to "square the circle". What were they trying to do?
Construct a square of equal area to a given circle
Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter "π" its current mathematical definition?
William Jones
How long did it take a computer in 1949 to compute 2037 digits of pi?
70 hours