pi Day !
Write Your Own Pi-ku:
With a pi-ku, the first line is three syllables, the second line is one syllable, and the third line is four syllables. Sounds easy enough, right? Try making your pi-ku about pi. |
Pi Jokes:
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Pi Trivia!
- On Pi Day (3 - 14) in 1879, a baby was born in Ulm, Germany to a German couple whose name meant "one stone." That baby was Albert Einstein!
- As of August 1, 2016, 13.3 trillion digits of pi have been calculated! it would take a person well over 150 years to recite all of them without stopping
- Since there are 360 degrees in a circle and pi is so connected with the circle, you have to look at the 360th digit of pi... At the 359th digit we find 360. In other words, 360 is "centered" over the 360th digit.
- The sequence 123456 does not occur in the first million digits of pi. But, 12345 occurs 8 times, and of those 8, three of them are followed by a 5. The sequence 012345 occurs twice, and is followed by another 5 both times.
- The sequence 3333333 occurs at the 710,100th digit and at the 3,204,765th digit. In the first million digits, there are seven-long runs of the same number for each numeral except 2 and 4.
- If you break down the digits of pi into blocks of 10, the probability that one of those blocks will contain ten distinct digits (not necessarily in numerical order) is about 1 in 40,000. This first happens in the seventh block of ten digits.
- There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi
- The symbol for Pi (π) has been used regularly for 250 years
- Pi has been studied by the human race for 4,000 years
- Pi was first calculated by Archimedes of Syracuse. He was reportedly so engrossed in his work that he did not notice when the Roman soldiers conquered the city of Syracuse. When a Roman soldier approached Archimedes, he yelled in Greek “Do not touch my circles!” The Roman soldier quickly cut off his head and moved on.
- If you printed a billion decimals of Pi in ordinary font it would stretch from New York City to Kansas.
- Pi is the symbol Sandra Bullock clicks on to gain access to unauthorized databases on the Web in the movie The Net.
- In the Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold," Spock foils the evil computer by telling it to "compute to the last digit the value of pi."
- The Great Pyramid at Giza seems to approximate pi. The vertical height of the pyramid has the same relationship to the perimeter of its base as the radius of a circle has to its circumference.
- William Shanks (1812-1882) worked for years by hand to find the first 707 digits of pi. Unfortunately, he made a mistake after the 527th place and, consequently, the following digits were all wrong.
- The first million decimal places of pi consist of 99,959 zeros, 99,758 1s, 100,026 2s, 100,229 3s, 100,230 4s, 100,359 5s, 99,548 6s, 99,800 7s, 99,958 8s, and 100,106 9s.
- William Jones introduced the symbol for pi in 1706, and it was later popularized by Leonhard Euler in 1737.
(From: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0876705.html)
The number known as pi (π) has fascinated people for millenia. The digits to the right of its decimal point can keep going forever, and there is absolutely no pattern to these digits.
Chances are, you'll never need to know even the first ten digits, but just for fun, here are the first thousand:
π = 3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944
5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 216420198
The number known as pi (π) has fascinated people for millenia. The digits to the right of its decimal point can keep going forever, and there is absolutely no pattern to these digits.
Chances are, you'll never need to know even the first ten digits, but just for fun, here are the first thousand:
π = 3.
1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510 5820974944
5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 216420198
Make a Pi Chain:
Using the digits of pi above, we are going to see how far we can go in making a pi chain! Each color of construction paper stands for a digit 0 - 9. The first group will start the chain, with each group adding to it. Can we do all 1000 digits? Can we go further?
Red = 1
Orange = 2
Yellow = 3
Green = 4
Blue = 5
Purple = 6
Pink = 7
Brown = 8
Black = 9
White = 0
Using the digits of pi above, we are going to see how far we can go in making a pi chain! Each color of construction paper stands for a digit 0 - 9. The first group will start the chain, with each group adding to it. Can we do all 1000 digits? Can we go further?
Red = 1
Orange = 2
Yellow = 3
Green = 4
Blue = 5
Purple = 6
Pink = 7
Brown = 8
Black = 9
White = 0