Amazing Facts About Pie
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Amazing facts about Pi
1. The most recognized mathematical constant is Pi. Pi is often considered as the most intriguing and important number in all of mathematics
2. The symbol for pi has been regularly used for the past 250 years only.
3. You can never find the true circumference or area of a circle because we can never find the true value of pi.
4. “Wolf in the Fold”, the Star Trek episode, Spock spoils the evil computer by commanding it to, compute the last digit of Pi value.
5. In the Greek alphabets, Pi is the sixteenth letter. In English p is also sixteenth letter.
6. Pi: Faith in Chaos, a fascinating movie directed by Darren Aronofsky’s won Directory Award at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival. In this movie, the main character attempts to find simple answers about Pi and drives him mad.
7. Pi, represents the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. It can be also said as, the number of times a circle’s diameter will fit around its circumference.
8. Pi day is celebrated on March 14 every year. It represents 3.14, which is pi value. The first widely-attended pi day celebration was organized by Physicist Larry Shaw, also known as Prince of Pi, in the year 1988.
9. Pi is transcendental and irrational. It is irrational because it can’t be written as a rational simple fraction, though 22/7 is close, it is not exact. It is transcendental because it is not algebraic, it is not a non-constant polynomial equation with rational coefficients.
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----->The first attempt to calculate Pi was by the Rhind Papyrus who tried to measure the diameter of a circle by building a square inside it.
______>The first person to study Pi intensely and rigorously was Archimedes of Syracuse who lived from 287-212BC. When the city was taken by Romans Archimedes did not hear them coming. Archimedes yelled at the soldier to leave his circles alone - and the soldier killed him.
_______>The symbol for Pi (π) was introduced by William Jones in 1706. This symbol has only been used however since 1737 after Leonhard Euler made it popular.
_______>The first 36 digits of Pi are called the Ludolphine Number. This number is named after Ludolph Van Ceulen who spent the majority of his life calculating the first 36 numbers.
_______>Chao Lu is the world record holder for remembering the value of Pi to the longest decimal point. His record stands at 67,890 digits.
________>Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th each year. This date is represented numerically by 3/14. It is supposed to start at exactly 1:59 p.m. This would make pi Day's official start at 3/14/159. Macrh 14th is also Albert Einstein's birthday.
_______>In the TV show "Star Trek" Spock fools an evil computer into trying to compute Pi's last digit and destroys it.
A movie was made in 1988 called Pi: Faith in Chaos. It was about a man trying to find answers about Pi and he goes crazy in the process.
________>When giving a computer a stress test, asking it to provide the calculation of Pi is sometimes used. It is a type of digital cardiogram for a computer, the same as there are cardiograms used for stress tests on humans.
_______>In the first 31 digits of Pi there are zero zeros.
________>In the Greek alphabet the symbol for Pi is the 16th letter and in the English language alphabet the 16th letter is p.
_________>The first 144 digits add up to what many believe to be the mark of the beast - 666.
_________>Leonardo da Vinci tried to approximate Pi by squaring the circle but he did not focus on it like others.
Some mathematicians believe that it is better to say that circles have an infinite number of corners rather than to say that they have none at all.