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What would happen if there is no pi?
We’re not talking squares everywhere — a pi-less planet could mean no cell phones, no radios, no air travel or off-track betting. Even without pi, we’d still have circles — we just wouldn’t have any coherent means of expressing them, and calculating circular stuff would be an imperfect science.
Is pi the same in every universe?
Pi was originally discovered as the constant equal to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Well, Pi is different from all other numbers. It is a universal constant encoded in most processes occurring in the universe, including those in the life sciences!
Can pi value change?
Because pi is just the ratio of the circumference to the diameter, that won’t change so long as the behavior of the ‘metric of the universe’ doesn’t change.
What if Pi wasn’t 3?
If Pi wasn’t 3.1415 and so on, circles wouldn’t exist as we know them today. I also found out there was a mathematician in Indiana who was convinced Pi was actually 3.2. He even tried to make it a law so all the students in the state would have to use that number in their math classes. Of course, it didn’t pass.
Where can you find Pi in nature?
You can find Pi in nature, too. For example, you can find it in the pupil of our eyes or ringed splashes in ponds. Albert Einstein even found Pi in the shapes of rivers. It just so happens Pi Day falls on Einstein’s birthday, March 14. OK, he was born in 1879, not 1592.
What is the number pi?
“The person who figured it out, well, they threw him overboard!” Pi is an irrational number. Unlike the rational numbers that have sections of repeating digits after the decimal, Pi’s digits look a little different. To give you an idea, here are just the first hundred digits of Pi: 3.14159265358979323846264
What will you Celebrate Pi Day with?
Albert Einstein even found Pi in the shapes of rivers. It just so happens Pi Day falls on Einstein’s birthday, March 14. OK, he was born in 1879, not 1592. I think I’ll celebrate math and science with a nice slice of tuna fish pie.