Pi Day 2024

• 314 A.D.

• 1608 A.D.

• 1706 A.D.

• 1804 A.D.

The record of reciting the most decimal places of Pi was achieved by Rajveer Meena on March 21, 2015. How many digits of Pi did he recite?

• 15,500

• 31,415

• 70,000

• 87,000

True or False. It is impossible to find the exact value of the area of a circle.

• True

• False

There is a dialect based on the number Pi in which the number of letters in each word match the corresponding digit of pi. (the first word has 3 letters, the second has 1 letter, the third has 4, etc.)

What is the name of this language?

• Pi-lish

• Pi-thon

• Pi-lang

• Pi-word

Who was the first mathematician to start using the symbol for Pi?

• Sir Isaac Newton

• William Jones

• Leonhard Euler

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

The current record of the number of calculated digits of Pi was set in 2017. The current record calculates Pi to how many decimal places

• 2 million digits

• 220 million digits

• 22 trillion digits

• 220 billion digits

Some mathematicians believe there is a better alternative to Pi. What number to they believe is better?

• τ (Tau)

• φ (Phi)

• μ (Mu)

• ψ (Psi)

True or False. The United States Congress passed a resolution that recognizes Pi Day as being on March 14.

• True

• False

What allowed Chinese Mathematicians to calculate Pi ahead of the rest of the world?

• Trade routes allowed for the trading of "ideas" to the area.

• They used fractions in their calculations of Pi.

• They had a symbol for the number 0.

• They used calculators.

A common way calculate Pi is creating a polygon with "n" sides and turning it into a rectangle (see image). Who was the famous mathematician who used a 96 sided polygon to estimate Pi?

• Archimedes

• Sir Isaac Newton

• Carl Friedrich Gauss

• Pythagoras