Pi Quiz

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On Mar 13, 2019

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Pi Quiz

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Pi to 2 decimal places is 3.14. What digit comes next?

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Rajveer Meena holds the Guinness world record for the most decimal places of pi memorised. How many decimal places did he recall?

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How many digits of pi were calculated in a new record set in 2017?

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How many digits of pi does NASA use in calculations for sending rockets into space?

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What is the formula for the area of a circle?

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Pi haters argue that we should use another number, named tau, as the circle constant. What is the approximate value of tau?

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Which Greek mathematician created an algorithm for calculating pi in around 250 BC?

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Which singer sings over 100 digits of pi in her song Pi?

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Who first proved that pi is irrational?

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What is the formula for the volume of a sphere?

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In the book Life of Pi, what is Pi short for?

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When was the symbol π first used to denote the number pi?

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Isaac Newton wrote: "I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time." How many digits of pi did he calculate?

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In the Star Trek episode Wolf in the Fold, Spock instructs a computer to compute the last digit of Pi. (Don’t try this on Alexa.) How does the computer respond?

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