The document discusses the number Pi. It provides information about Pi such as:
- Pi is an irrational number whose exact value can never be known
- Pi is commonly approximated to 3.14 or 22/7 for technical purposes
- Pi was first calculated to 35 decimal places by a German mathematician in the 16th century
- There are memory techniques to remember more digits of Pi like short phrases representing each digit
5. German mathematician
In 1596 he published the
value up to 20 digits
neskôr vypočítal až na
35desatinných miest
Eventually, he calculated
the value up to 35
decimals
After his death the
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8. We‘ll never know the exact value of Pi as it‘s an
Irrational number .
Its value up to 60 decimal places is:
We use the number of 3.14 or sometimes 22/7
for technical purposes.
3,14
9. There are several ways to remember
as many figures of the Ludolf‘s
number as possible. One of the
most popular forms is a short
wordplay as the lenghth of every
word represents one digit.
10. "How I want a drink, alcoholic of
course, after the heavy lectures
involving quantum mechanics.“
3, 1, 4, 1...
