Useless Faq
Pi is both the sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet and the symbol that represents the world's oldest mathematical mystery, the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
Since 1794, when it was proven that Pi was both irrational and infinite, people have been searching for a pattern in the endless string of numbers.
Pi can be found everywhere, from astronomy to probability to the physics of sound and light. Today it has been calculated to over 51 billion digits, so far with no pattern from its numbers. Calculating the digits to millions of decimal places is now used to test computers for bugs in hardware and software (which is how Intel's Pentium found a chip bug a few years ago).
If you like to calculate Pi the old fashioned way, its not just you. Hundreds of clubs have been formed to celebrate and calculate the ratio, most of these clubs expect you to be able to deal with seguence memorization to join. These people need a better hobbie. The current world record for pi memorization was made in 1995, when a Japanese man recited 42,000 digits from memory in just over nine hours.
There is a Pi day. March 14th is National pi day. March 14th is also Albert Einstein's birthday.
The Solomon Society is a traditional values group that believe the Bible has a different value for Pi than the traditional value. Most people in the scientific and mathematic communities believes Pi to be a infinite number, but Leonard Lee Lawson, a member of the Solomon Society claims that "The Bible very clearly says in 1Kings 7:23 that the alter font of Solomon's Temple was ten cubits across and thirty cubits in diameter, and that it was round in compass. The Bible does not say that the font was thirty something cubits. Plain reading says thirty-cubits. Period." Lawson says that based on Biblical facts the value of pi is exactly 3.
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