Interesting facts about pi
The value of pi with first 100 decimal places is: 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679
‘Pi’ is the 16 letter in the greek alphabet
An ancient mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse who lived between 287 – 212 BC derived the value of pi based on the area of a regular polygon inscribed within the circle and the area of a regular polygon within which the circle was circumscribed.
A German mathematician, Ludolph van Ceulen, devoted his entire life to calculate the first 35 decimal places of pi.
The first 144 digits of pi add up to 666 and 144 = (6+6) x (6+6).
William Shanks (1812-1882) worked for years manually to find the first 707 digits of pi. Unfortunately, he made a mistake after the 527th place and the following digits were all wrong.
”Pi Day” is celebrated on March 14 (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14). The official celebration begins at 1:59 p.m., to make an appropriate 3.14159 when combined with the date. Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day (3/14/1879) in Ulm Wurttemberg, Germany.
William Jones (1675-1749) introduced the symbol “π” in 1706
The first six digits of pi (314159) appear in order at least six times among the first 10 million decimal places of pi.
A website called the pi search page http://www.angio.net/pi/piquery finds numbers such as your birthday in the first 100 million digits of pi
