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It’s Pi Day!

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