So math people can t let Pi Day go by 1) Its not the same as 22/7. Just a way for kids to solve a problem without a calculuator 2) Its an irrational number. Which means is a non-repeating decimal and cant be written as a fraction. 3) the ratio of a circles circumference to its diameter 4) William Jones introduced the use of the greek letter in 1706 but Euler made it more popular in 1746 5) Carl Sagan suggests that a hidden message is embedded in the pi numbers. 6) Its used in quantum mechanics, cell phone technology, anything having to round shapes (regardless of their dimension), senbergs uncertainty principle and 7) To drive high school students crazy!
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 13:55:59 +0000