Pi Fun Facts

  • In 2005, Chao Lu achevied the record of most digits of pi memorized by reciting Pi from memory to 67,890 places
  • Pi has been studied by the human race for almost 4,000 years
  • The first million decimal places of pi consist of 99,959 zeros, 99,758 1s, 100,026 2s, 100,229 3s, 100,230 4s, 100,359 5s, 99,548 6s, 99,800 7s, 99,985 8s, and 100,106 9s
  • The Bible alludes to pi in 1 Kings 7:23 where it describes the altar inside Solomon’s temple: “And he made a molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim . . . and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.” Some scholars interpret this to mean that the value of pi is 3
  • There are no occurrences of the sequence 123456 in the first million digits of pi, but 12345 occurs eight times
  • The first six digits of pi (314159) appear in order at least six times among the first 10 million decimal places of pi
  • "Pi Day" is celebrated on March 14 (which was chosen because it resembles 3.14). The official celebration begins at 1:59 p.m., to make an appropriate 3.14159 when combined with the date. Albert Einstein was born on Pi Day (3/14/1879) in Ulm Wurttemberg, Germany
  • Many mathematicians claim that it is more correct to say that a circle has an infinite number of corners than to view a circle as being cornerless

Notable Formulas

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Gaussian Integral
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Euler Identity
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Leibniz's Formula for Pi