30 Random Facts About Pi

1. Pi Day and Albert Einstein's birthday are on the same day, March 14th.

2. Fabrice Bellard holds the record for discovering the most number of digits of Pi, in which he calculated 2.7 trillion digits. Amazingly, this was done on only a desktop computer.

3. Pi is the most recognized math constant in history.

4. If 12,000,000,000 of the trillions of digits in Pi were written in normal-font size and placed in real life, it would reach from New York City to Kansas.

5. Lu Chao holds the record for memorizing the most digits in Pi, in which he memorized 67, 890 digits. It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to do so.

6. In the first 100,000 digits of Pi, the number 1 appears 10,137 times.

7. Pi has it's own movie, called Pi: Faith in Chaos. It won the Directory Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1988.

8. William Shanks calculated the first 707 digits of Pi by hand, despite making a mistake after the 527th digit.

9. No computer can calculate the true value of Pi.

10. The movies "The Net" and "Torn Curtain" both have secret codes which are Pi.

11. Humans spent the past 4000 years studying Pi.

12. The fraction of Pi, which is 22/7, is 0.00000849% accurate.

13. The first 6 digits of Pi, 314159, appear six times in the first 10 million digits.

14. There are no zeros in the first 31 digits of Pi.

15. Because there is no true value in Pi, there is no true circumference or area of an circle.

16. The symbol for Pi has been used for the past 250 years.

17. In the Star Trek episode "Wolf in the Fold", Spock spoils the evil computer by telling it the compute the last digit of Pi.

18. The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter is Pi.

19. The first Pi Day was celebrated in 1988, thanks to the "Prince of Pi", Larry Shaw.

20. The value of Pi continues infinitely with no repetition or pattern, which is why there is no true value of Pi.

21. Ludolph Van Ceulen spent nearly all of his life calculating the first 36 digits of Pi, in which are known as the "Ludolphine Number".

22. The 359th digit position of Pi is 360.

23. The fraction 104348/33215 is the most accurate to Pi, which is 00000001056%.

24. People use Pi to measure ripples emanating from a central point.

25. The computer ENIC computed the first 2,037 decimal places of Pi in 1949, which took 70 hours.

26. To calculate both normal distributions and the distribution of prime numbers, Pi is used.

27. Pi has its own band, named "A Love Like Pi".

28. The first five digits of the convergence of pi are 3, 22/7, 333/106, 355/113, and 103993/33102.

29. The first ten digits of pi Engel extraction are 1, 1, 1, 8, 8, 17, 19, 300, 1991, and 2492.

30. Pi is both a irrational and transcendental number, meaning it can't be expressed as a true fraction and that it is not algebraic.