pi, n.Trivia

Albert Einstein is a pi-day birthday boy (march 14th) in 1879

Pi was first calculated rigorously by Archimedes (287-112B.C.)

Pi is often referred to with the fraction 22/7 which is accurate to .04025 percent

Pi has six 9s in a row at the 763rd position. This is known as the Feynman Point

The Pi memory champ is Hiroyuki Goto (from Tokyo) who received 42,195 digits from memory in 1995

Pi is celebrated on March 14th, or Pi Day, which officially begins at 1:59 to make it 3.1459

Pi is figured out to the eight quadrillion places (as of 2013)

3.14 is PIE spelled backwards

Pi (3.1415926) "May I have a large container of coffee?"(count the letters of each word in the phrase)

You only need 40 digits of Pi to calculate the circumference of the observable universe, to the accuracy of 1 hydrogen atom

Pi is representative of 360, a number which is coincidentally is found at the 359th digit position of pi

Pi is the most recognized mathematical constant in the world

pi symbol (π). . . was first introduced in 1706 by William Jones but popularized by Leonhard Euler in 1737