Pi Mini-Research Project Name

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Mr. Yates GEOMETRY Date Pi Day! . Pd
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Today is Pi Day, where we celebrate the number pi (π), its wondrous

properties, and its connections to geometry, trigonometry, and all of
mathematics. Your task today: learn something new about the
number π = 3.14159…

1. What is the definition of pi? (Hint: it has to do with circles)

2. What year was the first pi day?

3. Find and write sixty decimal places of pi here:

4. Extra Credit: Memorize ten places (past the decimal point) of pi;
practice it over the weekend. If you can recite it to me Monday,
you may earn ten extra credit points on this project.

5. How many digits of pi have been calculated by computer?

6. How many digits of pi has the Guiness World Record holder

memorized?

7. How many digits of pi would you need to calculate the

circumference of the known universe to a precision the radius of
an atom?

8. How is pi related to the circumference of a circle?

9. How is pi related to the area of a circle?

10.Can pi be expressed as a fraction (like 0.2 = 1/5)? If so, what

fraction? If not, why not?
11.Can pi be approximated with a fraction? What fraction is close to
pi?

12. Do the digits of pi stop, or do they go on forever? Is there a

repeating pattern in the digits (like 1/7 =
0.142857142857142857…)?

13.Pi is transcendental: what does this mean?

14. Can pi be the solution to a quadratic equation like 3x2 + 1x – 4 =

0?

15. Pi is conjectured to be normal. What does this mean?

16.What did the Indiana Pi Bill try to do?

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17. What does the infinite series − + − + − +  equal?
1 3 5 7 9 11

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18. What does the infinite series 2
+ 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 +  equal? Who
1 2 3 4 5
first showed this?

19. Find the name of someone involved in the history of pi, and say
how they were involved with pi.

20.Find three more interesting facts about pi, and state them here.