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Pi Day Facts!
Pi Day Facts!
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This Quiz has fun facts about the origins, history, and meaning of pi. #pi #PiDay
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Ludolph Van Ceulen spent most of his life calculating the first _________ digits of pi.
36
11021
4096
243
2
Egyptians estimated pi to be ________.
3.142
3
3.125
3.162
3
What is pi?
the ratio of circumference to radius
the ratio of radius to circumference
the ratio of circumference to diameter
the ratio of diameter to circumference
4
Pi is the __________ letter in the Greek alphabet.
14th
13th
16th
15th
5
Is pi rational or irrational?
irrational
rational
6
What does it mean to say pi is transcendental?
Pi is superior to all other numbers.
Most of the digits of pi are beyond human knowledge.
Pi is an abstract and metaphysical number.
Pi isn't the root of a polynomial with integer coefficients.
7
Feynman point is the name for the _______ in a row that start at decimal point number 762.
six 9s
seven 8s
nine 6s
eight 7s
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Which of the following is the best approximation of pi?
4(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9-1/11+1/13-1/15)
22/7
3.1415
103993/33102
9
In what year did Lambert prove that pi is irrational?
1761
1819
1167
1198
10
Why is pi called "pi"?
because of the Greek word for perimeter
because of the Greek word for ratio
because of the Greek word for circumference
because of the Greek word for irrational
11
Which digit occurs most in the first 100,000 digits of pi?
2
9
1
7
12
Which of these people calculated 35 decimal places of pi?
Van Ceulen
Zu Chongzhi
Ptolemy
al-Khwarizmi
13
The first 144 digits of pi add up to _________.
888
42
666
777
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It took the Electronic Numeric Integrator and Computer _____ to find 2037 digits of pi in 1949.
60 hours
80 hours
70 hours
90 hours
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What is Buffon's needle?
a way to calculate pi by dropping needles
a way to calculate pi by throwing darts
a bridge under which Buffon calculated digits of pi
a way to calculate pi via diameter of cylinders
16
"I prefer pi," is a/an __________.
palindrome
incomplete sentence
anachronism
onomatopoeia
17
The state of Indiana almost passed a bill in 1897 to change the value of pi to ________.
3.2
3.15
3.1
3.14
