History
Is accredited with being the first to calculate pi
Who is Archimedes of Syracuse?
Circumference of a circle
What is pi*d?
The ratio of circumference to diameter
What is pi?
Collecting ratios from many different circles
What is Archimedes Method of Exhaustion?
What is Calculus?
They calculated the area of a circle by taking 3 times the square of its radius, making the value of pi = 3
Who are the Babylonians?
Area of a circle
What is pi * r2?
Circumference of a circle is 3.14159...cm
Calculate the diameter
What is 1cm?
A circle is 30 cubits around the outside and is 10 cubits across. Determine the ration
What is 3?
March 14th
When is pi day?
Chinese mathematician and astronomer who calculated an approximation of pi (355/113)
Who is Zu Chongzhi?
Ratio used to approximate pi
What is 22/7?
Radius 5m
Circumference =
What is 31.415926m ?
A 2 inch long string goes across a cup. Determine how many times around it wraps around
What is 2pi (6.283185) inches?
Pi was determined to be between these 2 numbers
What is 3 and 4?
Produced formulas for calculating pi
Who is Leonhard Euler?
Biblical approximation of pi
Circumference to diameter
What is 30 cubits to 10?
Radius 2cm
Area =
What is 12.5663cm2 ?
The amount of pizzas the crust of one pizza go across
What are 3.14 pizzas?
Year that Archimedes calculated pi
When is 250 B.C.?
The first to prove that pi is irrational.
Who is Johann Heinrich Lambert?
William Jones first used this to represent the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
What is pi?
The area of a circle is 28.27433cm2
Calculate the diameter
What is 6cm?
A circle's ratio is between that of these two shapes
What are a square and a hexagon?
First to prove that pi is transcendental
Who is Ferdinand von Lindemann?