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It’s Pi Day!

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    March 14 is National Pi Day so test your knowledge about Pi, Pie or both!
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  • Pi Day is celebrated on March 14 because it looks like March 14 (3-14) but what time does the official celebration begin?
    1:59 pm
    3:19 am
    3:14 pm
    12:01 am
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  • Who was the first to find the number pi?
    Archimedes
    Socrates
    Pythagorus
    Boyle
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  • The pi symbol was introduced how many years ago?
    400
    300
    200
    100
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  • In 1706, ________ added the first Greek letter to its mathematical definition.
    Isaac Newton
    William Jones
    Albert Einstein
    Napoleon Bonaparte
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  • Who was the first group to find a value for pi?
    Romans
    Babylonians
    Greeks
    Egyptians
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  • It took a supercomputer _____ hours to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits in 1997.
    29
    126
    5
    78
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  • Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?
    Euler
    Newton
    Einstein
    Bell
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  • What are the first 8 digits of Pi?
    3.1412695
    3.1415926
    3.1412345
    3.1415026
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  • How many digits are in pi?
    10 trillion
    50 trillion
    100 billion
    infinite
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  • Pi is which numbered letter of the Greek alphabet?
    13th
    14th
    16th
    15th
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  • Pi is best described as what type of number?
    an irrational number
    a rational number
    an integer
    an irregular fraction
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  • Which of these fractions is closest to Pi?
    5 over 3
    45 over 16
    21 over 8
    22 over 7
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