The Pi Trivia Game

by Eve Andersson

     

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Finally this is your chance to pay tribute to the magnificent transcendental number that we have all grown to love! Here are 25 questions (given to you 5 at a time), picked randomly from my pi question database. Get ready for the thrill of your lifetime, the ultimate challenge, The Pi Trivia Game!

1. What is the earliest known reference to pi?




2. Pi is transcendental. What does it mean for a number to be transcendental?




3. For many years, it has been conjectured but unproven that pi is normal in base 10. What does normal mean?




4. The following are all mnemonics for remembering the first few digits of pi (the number of letters in each word corresponds to a digit of pi). Which of these was written in 1995 by Michael Keith?




5. It has been proven impossible to "square the circle." What does it mean to square the circle?





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