Pi Day Trivia

What is  $\pi$   ?

• The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter

• 3.14159

• The radius of a unit circle

• The ratio of a circles diameter to its area

In the decimal expansion of  $\pi$  which digit is missing in the 1st 30 places?

• 2

• 0

• 5

• 7

How long did it take for a computer to compute 2037 digits of pi in 1949?

• 70 Hours

• 100 Minutes

• 200 Hours

• A) 35 Days

What is the position of  $\pi$ in greek alphabet ?

• 10th

• 12th

• 14th

• 16th

How many digits of   $\pi$    did Lu Chao of china memorize and set the world record?

• 67,890

• 68,980

• 69,760

• 60,967

"I prefer pi" is _______________.

• an awesome math quote
• a palindrome
• what Moby tells Tim in the Circles BrainPop video
• the name of a mathematics poem

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In the middle ages, who was the first person who intoduced base 10 as a calculation reference in Europe and found an approximation of Pi ?

• Viete

• Cardan

• Ferrari

• Fibonacci

By whom was the circumference of the earth calculated and the value of Pi was cosidered to be 22/7 ?

• Archimedes

• John Machin's

• Aryabhatta

• None of the above

The diameter of this stained glass window is 5 inches.Find its circumference.

• 6 $\pi$  

• 5 $\pi$  

• 4 $\pi$  

• 2 $\pi$  

Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?

• Euler

• Einstein

• Descartes

• Fibonacci