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This is the type of number that pi is
What is irrational
100
This is the country Pythagoras was born in.
What is Greece?
100
The symbol for pi has been used regularly in its mathematical sense only for the past how many years?
What is 250 years?
100
This is the formula for the circumference of a circle? (There are 2 correct answers for this.)
What is C= 2 * pi * r OR C= pi * diameter
100
What Greek island was Pythagoras born in?
What is Samos?
200
The symbol pi in mathematics represents the what of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
What is ratio
200
What year was Pythagoras born in?
What is 570 B.C?
200
Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. This is the official time the celebration begins.
What is 1:59 p.m.?
200
This is the formula for the area of a circle.
What is A= pi * r * r OR pi * r squared
200
Which number was considered a perfect number, according to Pythagoras?
What was 10?
300
The first million decimal places of pi consists of how many zeros?
What is 99,959.
300
What year did Pythagoras die?
What is 495 B.C?
300
This person introduced the pi symbol in 1706.
Who is William Jones?
300
This is the volume of a cylinder.
What is V = pi * r squared * h
300
To whom was Pythagoras referring when he said, "There are men, and gods and beings like ______ ?
Who is Pythagoras?
400
This is the most common fractional equivalent to pi.
What is 22/7
400
What theorem did Pythagoras invent?
What is Pythagorean theorem?
400
In the Greek and English alphabets, pi is this letter. (HINT: The answer is a number.)
What is the sixteenth (16)?
400
When finding pi by using the circumference and diameter, this is the formula.
What is pi = C/d (pi = circumference divided by diameter.)?
400
How old would Pythagoras be if he still lived to this day?
What is 2584?
500
This man popularized the symbol for pi.
Who is Leonard Euler?
500
Besides Mathematics what else was Pythagoras interested in?
What is Music?
500
This is the computer the calucated pi to the 1.24 trillionth digit in 2002.
What is the Hitachi SR 8000?
500
This knight was the roundest knight at King Arthur's round table. (He acquired his size from too much pi.)
Who is Sir Cumference?
500
What astrological theory did Pythagoras believe in?
What Ptolemaic system?