Amazing Facts About Pie
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Interesting Pi Facts:
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.
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1. A Pi is an irrational number
2. The first million decimal places of pi contains 99,959 zeros, 99,758 1s, 100,026 2s, 100,229 3s, 100,230 4s, 100,359 5s, 99,548 6s, 99,800 7s, 99,985 8s, and 100,106 9s
3. Plato apparently got the correct value for pi: √2 + √3, which is 3.146.
Plato apparently got the correct value for pi
4. Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day
5. Pi is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter
6. Pi is also mentioned in the Bible.
7. Darren Aronofsky’s fascinating movie π shows how the main character’s attempt to find simple answers about pi drives him mad. The film won the Directing Award at the 1988 Sundance Film Festival
8. An electronic numeric integrator and computer took 70 hours to figure out the first 2,037 decimal places of pi in 1949
9. We can never find the true value of pi.
We can never find the true value of pi
10. Pi is also referred to as the “circular constant,” “Archimedes’ constant,” or “Ludolph’s number
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