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Saturday, April 7, 2012

Answers to All About Pi Scavenger Hunt!

  1. Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter.
  2. Pi is an irrational number because it cannot be written as a simple fraction. It continues on forever.
  3. Pi to 30 digits equals 3.141592653589793238462643383279.
  4. In 1995, Yasumasa Kanada computed Pi to 6,442,450,000 or 6.4 billion decimal places in 116 hours.
  5. The symbol for pi was first used by William Jones in 1706.
  6. A well known fraction for pi is 22/7. It is 0.04025% accurate.
  7. The most accurate fraction for pi is 104348/33215. It is 0.00000001056% accurate.
  8. The first zero occurs at the 32nd place.
  9. The Feynman Point is the 6 nines that occur in a row at the position 762.
  10. Pi day is celebrated on March 14th because March is the third month and the 14th day makes 3.14

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