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Who discovered Pi first?
Babylonians
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How do you find the circumfrence of a circle?
Pi(d)
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What is the language of Pi?
Pilish
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What was the first shape drawn inside of a circle to calculate the area?! (Found on the famous Rhind Papyrus)
A square
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Who first launched the idea of Pi Day?
A physicist named Larry Shaw
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when was pi discovered?
1706
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How is pi used in finding the volume of a sphere?
V=4/3(pi)r3
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What year did congress make pi day official when passing resolution 224?
2009
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What shape did Archimedes use to calculate pie both outside and inside a circle?
a polygon
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Who used the Pythagorean Theorem to calculate Pi?
Archimedes
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When did The Babylonians and Egyptians think about pi?
4000 years ago
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How is Pi used in finding the area of a cone.
Area of a cone=pi(r2) x height x 1/3
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How many decimal points of Pi did Rajveer Meena recite in 2015 to break the world record
70,000
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What shape based on Pi varies by only 0.1% from the estimated dimensions?
a pyramid
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Who calculated pi to the 16th decimal place?
(hint he's not just famous for an apple)
Sir Isaac Newton
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When did Shigeru Kondo calculate pi to 10 trillion digits
October 19, 2011
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How do you calculate the surface area of a sphere?
SA=4(pi)r2
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What is the one number that never occurs in the first 31 digits of pi?
0
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how many sides did Archimedes use to find a close approximation to pi?
96 sides
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Who used Pi in a long explanation about trigonometry?
Leonhard Euler
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When did D. F. Ferguson calculate 620 decimal places in pi?
1945
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EXTRA HARD QUESTION (Go D Fos you've got this): What is the digit-extraction algorithm which produces digits of pi (or pi2) in base-16
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What is the name for the first 36 digits of pi?
Ludolphine Number
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How many sides of a polygon is the closest approximation to pi?
12,288-sided polygon
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Who calculated 22,459,157,718,361 digits of pi using a mutlithreaded computer in 105 days in 2016
Peter Trueb