1600BC-1601
In 1600 BC pi was estimated to be 25/8 or 3.125. Which group of people estimated this number?
What is Egyptians?
In 1665, Sir _____ ________ discovered 16 digits of pi.
What is Isaac Newton?
In 1988, Pi day was created by Physicist Larry Shaw to symbolize the numerical order of pi in month/day format. What is this date?
What is March 14?
In 950 BC, Pi was found in __ _____ 7:23 stating "And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass about." Meaning that the temple had a diameter of 10 cubits and a perimeter of 30 cubits. What bible verse does this come from?
What is First Kings?
In _____, Welsh mathematician William Jones was the first to use the Greek letter pi (π) to denote the constant ratio, though it wasn't until 1737 that a Swiss mathematician and physicist Leonhard Euler popularized the use of the symbol.
What is 1707?
During the _____ trial in 1995, there were arguments between defense attorney Robert Blaiser and an FBI agent about the actual value of pi, revealing flaws in the agents intellectual acumen.
What is O.J. Simpson?
In 250 BC, ______ estimated the upper and lower bounds of pi by calculating the perimeters of hexagons composing a 96 sided polygon. He proved that 3,1408<pi<1429. Who was this?
What is Archimedes?
In 1737, the pi symbol was taken from a _____ word, meaning perimeter.
What is greek?
In 2002, The ____ University group beat their own record by computing π to more than 1.24 trillion digits using 600 hours of computing time on a Hitachi SR8000 supercomputer.
What is Tokyo?
In 1882 AD, German mathematician Ferdinand Von Lindemann proves that pi is what?
In 1761, Johann Heinrich Lambert proved that pi was what?
What is irrational?
In 2008, A crop circle was found that showed a coded image containing how many of the first digits of pi?
What is ten?
Throughout the 1600's, pi was finally freed from the circle and applied to curves, such as arches and hypocycloids, finding out that ____ could be expressed in terms of pi.
What is area?
In 1949, John Wrench and Levi Smith (American Mathematicians) reached the value of pi to _____ places with using a desk calculator.
What is 1,120?
Present day: Pi is still used everyday when calculating power _____ , doing construction, meteorology, constructing farming silos, and in computing wave forms for alternating-current electricity and how it travels.
What is generation?