Facts on π

 

Interesting facts about π (pi) that will surprise/fascinate you:

Ø Pi is an endless number:

Ø It’s an irrational number, which means it never ends and never repeats. The digits go on forever — 3.1415926535... and so on!

Ø Pi has been known for over 4,000 years:

Ø Ancient Egyptians and Babylonians had approximate values for pi long before it was formally calculated.

Ø The symbol “π” was first used in 1706:

Ø The Welsh mathematician William Jones introduced the symbol π to represent the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter.

Ø Pi Day is celebrated every year on March 14 (3/14):

Ø The date matches the first three digits of pi (3.14). It’s also Albert Einstein’s birthday!

Ø There is a World Record for memorizing pi:

Ø The current record holder, Rajveer Meena from India, recited 70,000 digits of pi in 2015 — it took him almost 10 hours!

Ø Pi appears everywhere in mathematics and science:

Ø It’s used not just for circles, but also in geometry, trigonometry, physics, engineering, and even probability theory.

Ø You can find your birthday in pi:

Ø If you search the infinite digits of pi, you can find almost any sequence of numbers — even your birthdate!

Ø Pi connects to the universe:

Ø Scientists use pi in formulas to measure things as small as atoms and as large as planets and galaxies.

Ø There’s a movie named “Pi”:

Ø A 1998 psychological thriller film called Pi explores a mathematician’s obsession with finding patterns in nature and numbers.

Ø Some people write poems called “Piems”:

Ø In a piem, each word’s length matches a digit of pi — for example: “Now I, even I, would celebrate...” (3.1415...).