3.14 Interesting Facts About Pi For Pi Day

3.14 Interesting Facts About Pi For Pi Day
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Each year, the world celebrates Pi Day on 14 March and the mathematical constant, which has been known for centuries, still intrigues people worldwide.

And Pi Day on March 14 is as good a reason as any for mathematical geeks around the world to celebrate this wonderous number which goes on and on forever.

In honour of Pi Day, we have put together some interesting facts about Pi.


Interesting Facts About Pi for Pi Day

Pi was not Pi till 1700s

Pi was not Pi till 1700s - Interesting Facts about Pi


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Even though the relationship between a circle’s diameter and its circumference has been known about for ages, it wasn’t until the 18th century that it became known as Pi. Welsh mathematician William Jones first used the Greek letter pi in 1706. It was eventually popularlised in the 1730s by Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler.


Endless Pi

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In school, we are used to 3.142 as the number for pi. We also know that the number goes on and on. How far on? In 2016, a Swiss scientist used a computer to try to calculate pi and ended up with 22 trillion digits. In case you are wondering, 22 trillion is 22,000,000,000,000.

And that was not even the end of pi.

The furthest that a human has got in terms of memorising pi is up to 70,000 decimal places. That was achieved by Rajveer Meena from India in 2015.


Famous People Associated with Pi Day

Famous People Associated with Pi Day

Long before the world started celebrating Pi Day, Albert Einstein was born on 14 March 1879. More recently, the famous physicist Stephen Hawking passed away on 14 March 2018. Coincidence?


Pilish – The Language of Pi

Ok, we decided to round up the number of facts from “3.14” to “4”.

The bonus fact about Pi is that there is a constrained style of writing developed around Pi. This is a way for word nerds (like ourselves) to also get in on the pi action

In Pilish, the number of characters in each word has to match the digits in pi. For example, the sentence “How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics!” matches the first 15 digits of pi.

If you are wondering how far this idea can be carried? There has been a full length Pilish novel with 10,000 digits published.

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Pearl Chen
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