Pi day crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. Only how many digits past the decimal point of pi are needed to accurately calculate the spherical volume of our entire universe
- 3. what Englishman calculated Pi to 707, but only 527 were correct
- 6. is a number (possibly a complex number) which is not algebraic—that is, it is not a root of a non-constant polynomial equation with rational coefficients
- 9. a straight line from the center to the circumference of a circle or sphere
- 10. pi day is celebrated in what month
- 11. is a name given to the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the diameter
- 12. The first theoretical calculation of a value of pi was calculated by him
- 16. is the distance around a two-dimensional shape
- 17. is the linear distance around the edge of a closed curve or circular object
- 18. carried out the longest calculation of pi to date on October 19, 2011
Down
- 1. the ancient who? generally calculated the area of a circle by taking 3 times the square of its radius
- 4. calculations of pi are used to test what?
- 5. is a real number that cannot be written as a simple fraction
- 6. pi is used in the branch of mathematics dealing with the relations of the sides and angles of triangles and with the relevant functions of any angles
- 7. infinite series of nested fractions
- 8. pi became popular after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician...
- 13. who was the first to use the Greek letter pi to represent pi
- 14. a round plane figure whose boundary (the circumference) consists of points equidistant from a fixed point (the center)
- 15. pi is always... and does not change
- 19. the what? of a circle is any straight line segment that passes through the center of the circle and whose endpoints lie on the circle