All about Pi Day- 3.14

Today is March 14 3/14 specifically Pi Day

Let us learn some interesting facts about Pi, the infinitely long never ending number.

  1. Pi is the ratio of Circumference of any circle to its diameter. So for every circle its Boundary is Pi times longer than its diameter.

  2. The value of  is 3.14159265358979323846…. and it never stops and never repeats. In other words it is non terminating non recurring.

  3. The value of 22/7 comes out very close to this value , so it is often used instead of Pi.

  4. The symbol was introduced by William Jones, a Welsh mathematician, in 1706, which has been in use for over 250 years.

  5. An Indian Rajveer Meena from VIT University , Vellore, India holds the World Record for reciting most number of decimal places of Pi, and that too blindfolded.

  6. Astonishingly, the ratio of base of Giza Pyramids to its altitude is also Pi

  7. Physicist Larry Shaw( Prince of Pi) started celebrating 14 March as Pi day at San Francisco’s Exploratorium science museum.

  8. Albert Einstein was born on 14th March 1879.

  9. We can never truly calculate the circumference of a circle as we don’t have exact value of Pi.

  10. The actual celebration of Pi Day starts at 1:59 to represent 3.14159

 

 

 Sources:

www.piday.org

www.spinfold.com

www.eduinfinite.com

www.smithcurriculumconsulting.com

https://en.wikipedia.org/

 

 

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