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