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Some fun facts about pi, some people around it, and overall uses of pi.
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How many digits of π has been calculated so far?
50,000,000,000,000
100,000,000,000,000
87,000,000,000,000
62,831,853,071,796
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What does it mean that pi is irrational?
The decimal part of the number goes on into infinity
Pi is a silly number
The number cannot be used in logic questions because it has to be estimated
Pi does not have consistent repeating patterns in its decimal form
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How far did Issac Newton compute π?
32 digits
115 digits
15 digits
3 digits
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We know π is used in circle formulas, thus it is found in Geometry and Trigonometry. What else is the constant found in?
Mechanics (force, matter and motion among physical objects)
Electromagnetism (interaction between particles with an electrical charge)
Thermodynamics (physics that deals with heat, work, temperature, etc.)
Cosmoloy (the study of the cosmos)
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Bonus: When was pumpkin pie first recorded in an English cook book?
1829
1203
1675
1430
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Which famous Mathematician's birthday is on pi day, March 14th?
Issac Newton
William Jones
Yasumasa Kanada
Albert Einstein
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Pi is the most commonly recognized math constant in the world.
True
False
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Why do people continue to calculate π then? Because...
We need it!! What about protons, neutrons, and electrons?!?
There is nothing wrong with finding knowledge for the sake of knowledge.
People like to break records and show up on news headlines.
People like to waste time doing things that don't matter.
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Though Jones was the first to start to use pi as the symbol, π, who popularized it?
Leonhard Euler
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Oliver Kirk
John Wrench
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How many records did
Yasumasa Kanada,
a Japanese computer scientist, set for calculating pi between 1949-2009?
18 out of 41
7 out of 41
3 out of 41
24 out of 41
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What is the
definition
of pi?
A delicious treat
The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
π
3.14159...
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Who, in 1706, decided to denote the concept of pi as π?
William Jones
Thomas Oswald
Oliver Kirk
Cyrus Brown
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Which oldest civilizations could pi calculations could be traced back to?
Hellenistic Greek (323-30 BC)
Babylonian (1830–1531 BC)
Egyptians (3000-300 BC)
Welsh (1706 AD)
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Pi is the ____ letter in the Greek Alphabet
16th
15th
14th
3rd
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Computing π is a good stress test for super computers
True
False
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How many digits of π are needed to calculate the circumference of the observable universe with a precision of one atom?
3 digits
39 digits
63 digits
1000 digits
