Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Interesting Facts About Pi

Interesting Facts About Pi

There is no zero in the first 31 digits of Pi.

The Babylonians found the first known value for Pi in around 2000BC -They used (25/8).

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If a billion decimals of pi were printed in ordinary type, they would stretch from New York City, to the middle of Kansas.

Pi in fraction form is - 837393900/266550757.

A rapidly converging formula for calculation of Pi found by Machin in 1706 was pi/4 = 4 * arctan (1/5) - arctan (1/239).

In 1882 Ferdinand Lindemann, proved the transcendence of Pi.

In ancient Greece the symbol for Pi denoted the number 80.

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