Pi represents the relationship between a circle’s diameter (its width) and its circumference (the distance around the circle).
Some Random Pi Facts:
- Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3.14)
- Pi occurs in hundreds of equations in many sciences including those describing the DNA double helix, a rainbow, ripples spreading from where a raindrop fell into water, superstrings, general relativity, normal distribution, distribution of primes, geometry problems, waves, navigation....
- Pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet.
- If a billion decimals of pi were printed in ordinary type, they would stretch from New York City, to the middle of Kansas.
- The Bible uses 3 as a value of pi. Here is a verse from I Kings 7:23: And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about.
- A palindrome: I prefer pi.
Happy Pi Day!
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