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100

There is a computer called the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIC) that, in 1949, took many hours to figure out the first 2,037 decimal places of pi. How many hours did it take?



70 hours
100

The state legislature of Indiana proposed a bill in 1897 that tried to ascertain the most exact value of what?. (The bill never did pass.



pi
100

Why is pi day the date that it is?  (It is also the birthday of Albert Einstein, who was born in 1879.) (Happy Pi Day!)

because march 14 is 3/14
200
Approximately how many years has pi been known for?
4000 years
200
What does 3.14 backwards look like?
"pie"
200

What is the most commonly occurring number in the first 100,000 decimal places of pi. It occurs 10,137 times.

1
300
What year was pie discovered? (estimated)

2550 BC

300

There is a computer called the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer (ENIC) that, in 1949, took many hours to figure out the first 2,037 decimal places of pi. How many hours did it take?



70 hours
300

How many digits of pi, typed in a normal-size font, would it take to reach Kansas from New York City.

12 billion
400

“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 it round about.” This is a bible verse referencing, what is it?

1 Kings 7:23

400

The record for discovering the most number of digits of pi belongs to Fabrice Bellard. He calculated ____ decimal places on just a desktop computer.

2.7 trillion
400

The Greek letter π was selected to describe pi in 1706 by who? (an English mathematician.)

William Jones
500

Who in the 2nd century B.C. got it accurately to three decimal places?

Archimedes

500

When people want to measure ____ emanating from a central point, they use pi.

ripples
500

________ point is the name for the six nines in a row that start at decimal point number 762.

Feynman