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- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Pi Day is celebrated on March 14. (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14) What time does the official celebration begin?3:14 PM7:22 PM1:59 PM5:18 PM
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who did the first proof to find the number pi?ArchimedesPythagorusSocratesBoyle
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What does the Massachusetts Institute of Technology do on Pi Day?Pi BeePie baking ContestPie eating competitionMails its acceptance letters
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.The symbol for pi was introduced in the last _____ years.100200300400
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Among the digits of π currently known, the concentration of each of the digits 0-9 are pretty close to equal. However, in the first 30 places of pi's decimal expansion, which digit is completely missing?7208
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Who, in 1706, first gave the Greek letter "π" its current mathematical definition?Isaac NewtonWilliam JonesNapoleon BonaparteArchimedes - Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who was the first group to find a value for π?EgyptiansBabyloniansRomansGreeks
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How many hours did it take a supercomputer to calculate pi to 51.5 billion digits, in 1997?78329124
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.Who adopted π as the symbol for pi?EulerEinsteinDescartesFibonacci
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.People tried for centuries to "square the circle". What were they trying to do?Construct a square to perfectly circumscribe a circleConstruct a square of equal area to a given circleMultiply a circle by itselffit a round peg in square hole
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What is the "formal" definition of pi?22/73.1415926the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameterthe surface area of a sphere of diameter 22/7
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What are the first 8 digits of Pi?3.14159263.14268703.13012693.2045761
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.How many digits are in pi?10 trillion5 billioninfinitea lot
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.What portion of Americans admit to having eaten an entire pie by themselves?1 in 21 in 51 in 101 in 19
- Multiple ChoicePlease save your changes before editing any questions.On The Simpsons, what type of pie lures Homer into a rope trap?Pumpkin PieApple PieDonut PieFloor Pie