WorksheetsPi Day
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the formal definition of pi?
a)
The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
b)
3.14159
c)
The radius of a unit circle
d)
The ratio of a circles diameter to its area
2.
Which of the following are the earliest known reference(s) to pi?
a)
The Rosetta Stone and Bible
b)
A Middle Kingdom papyrus scroll, by Ahmes the scribe
c)
Babylonian and Egyptian texts
d)
Homer’s Illiad
3.
Among the digits of pi currently known, the concentrations of each of the digits 0 - 9 are pretty much equal. However, in the first 30 digits of pi's decimal expansion, one number is conspicuously missing. Which number is it?
a)
2
b)
0
c)
5
d)
7
4.
Who had the digits of Pi engraved on his tombstone?
a)
Archimedes
b)
Ludolph van Ceulen
c)
John Wrench
d)
Jon von Neumann
5.
Are pi's digits periodic?
a)
Yes; the digits repeat themselves after every 6000 decimal places.
b)
Maybe; not enough digits of pi have yet been calculated to know if they start eventually repeating themselves.
c)
Yes; every infinitely long number has to start repeating itself sometime.
d)
No; every periodic number is rational, but pi is irrational.
6.
In 1897 a State House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill setting pi equal to 16√3 which approximately equals 9.2376. In which state of the United States did this occur?
a)
California
b)
Indiana
c)
Massachusetts
d)
Canada
7.
Which of the following is NOT a nickname given to Pi
a)
Archimedes Constant
b)
Rudolph’s Constant
c)
Ludolph’s Constant
8.
How long did it take a computer in 1949 to compute 2037 digits of pi?
a)
70 Hours
b)
100 Minutes
c)
200 Hours
d)
A) 35 Days
9.
The Guinness world record holder for Pi digits is
a)
Lu Chao
b)
Yao Ming
c)
Hiroyuki Goto
d)
Rajveer Meena
10.
What is another name for the number pi in Germany
a)
Drei
b)
Die Ludolphsche Zahl
c)
El numero bueno
d)
Gesundheit
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