Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Pi

Okay, first of all, I want to be clear. I hate pie. But right now we're going to be talking about a different pi. We're talking about the life of pi! The world's longest decimal number! In 2000 B.C. the Babylonians observed that pi is roughly 3. Later Archimedes gives the close approximation to pi of 22/7 and in 1706 A.D. the pi symbol,π, is created. The number pi has intrigued mathematicians for centuries and if we were able to find the answer to it not only would we find one of the greatest questions of all time but we would also find the exact number of how times a diameter goes into a circle. In 2002, pi had been converted to 1,241,100,000,000 digits. That's MENTAL! That would take you 62 laps around the world, and everyday it keeps growing! Comment what you think about this.

-Scotty

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