Pi Day Trivia

In September, 1999, the value of Pi was calculated to a record number of decimal places. How many?

•  206 million
• zero
• 206 billion
• 206 trillion

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How is Pi defined?

• The ratio of the diameter of a circle to its circumference
• The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter
• The ratio of the radius of a circle to its circumference
• The ratio of the circumference of a circle to its radius

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 Pi is best described as what type of number?

• an irregular fraction
• irrational number
• an integer
•  a rational number

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Which of these fractions is closest to Pi?

• 45 over 16
• 5 over 3
• 21 over 8
•  22 over 7

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Pi is named after a letter of which alphabet?

• Egyptian
• Greek
• English
• Chineese

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Which of the following is FALSE?

• A reference to Pi appears in the Bible

• The Babylonians found the first known value of Pi

• Pi has been memorized to more than 120,000 digits

• There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi

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If you multiply Pi by the square of the radius of a circle, what do you get?

• The circle's diameter
• The circle's area
• The circle's circumference
• The circle's radius

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Which number appears most in the first 6 billion decimal places of Pi?

• 2
• 1
• 0
• 5

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 What was Archimedes' famous method to approximate Pi?

•  fins a square of the same area of a circle and deduce an approximation for Pi
•  calculate the perimeters of n-sided polygons inscibed and circumscibed in a circle and make n tend to infinity
• calculate the diameter of a circle fixing it's circumference at 1
•  bake pies and calculate it's circumference

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The transcendance of Pi is linked to the famous ancient problem. Is it:

• The trissection of an angle
• the square egg
• the squaring of a circle
• the duplication of a cube

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