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The Hunt For the Great

PI

You are about to embark on a great and wonderful journey on the discovery of PI. This will take you from the beginning of the discovery to the current location of PI.

Warning: Be careful on your steps you take and learn PI as far as you can.

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First Website: The PI Pages
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/pi/pi.html

1. Click on Pi Story:
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/Pihistory.html

1. Who was closer to the true calculation of PI, the Babylonians or Egyptians?

2. Click Back. Click on Pi People from the Home Page:
http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/ISC/people.html

2. Who has the record of reciting the most numbers of PI By memory? How many Digits did he recite and how long did it take him?

Second Website: PI The Movie
http://www.pithemovie.com/gifpage.html

3. π Link: Click the π symbol.
http://www.pithemovie.com/pi.html

3. What number is Pi in the Greek Alphabet?

4. When is the first time that the sequence “123456789” appears in Pi?

Fourth Website: Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_day

5. What day in the year is PI Day?

Fifth Website: PI News by Kanada Laboratory
http://www.lupi.ch/PiSites/Pi-Rekord.html

6. What is the nearest decimal place number, declared as the new World Record, is Pi being taken to?

Sixth Website: The _____ -Digits-Egg
http://www.hlxx.de/hp/egg.htm

7. How many Digits of Pi are on the Egg?

Seventh Website: Where is Your Birthday in PI
http://www.facade.com/legacy/amiinpi/

8. Is your Birthday in PI? If so, what did you use as your birthday numbers and when does it start in PI?

Eighth Website: The PI Trainer
http://www.eveandersson.com/pi/pitrainer/

9. How many digits of pi can you get? No Cheating!!!

Research Questions:
Use the above links or any other website to answer the following questions. Be sure to document your websites used for each question.

R1. What is the 314 Digit of PI?

R2. What is the Formula, using Pi, for the Circumference and Area of a circle and for the Volume of a Cylinder?

R3. Who Calculated the earth’s circumference within 200 miles of the actual measure?

R4. How many Digits of Pi were engraved on one mans epitaph?

R5. What famous document recorded in the second century B.C. by the scribe, Ahmes was found in a Thebes ruin?

R6. Where is the Famous Document from question R5 now located and in what year did it get to that location?

R7. What did the Egyptians calculate Pi to be?