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Pi trivia questions? Need help!?

1. In 1706 the first person to use the Greek letter ? for the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle was what Welshman?

2. Give the Old Testament book and verse that refers to the value of ? “The sea was then cast, it was made with a circular rim, and measured ten cubits across, five in height, and thirty in circumference.”

3. In 1949 it took ENIAC 70 hours to calculate 2,037 decimal places of ? What is ENIAC?

4. Relatively speaking, name a physicist with a ? day birthday. Also, how old would he be on ? day this year?

5. In 1897, which state’s senate considered a bill that would officially change the value of ? to a less tedious number, such as 3 and 1/5?

6. Pi is the ___th letter in the Greek alphabet.

7. Name the current ? digits memorization champion, whose current record is 42,000 digits.

8. In Germany, a term for ?, named for the 16th century mathematician who calculated ? to 32 places, which were subsequently engraved on his tombstone.

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Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer is what ENIAC is, it was the first computer.

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Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of ? is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China.[29] It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of ? without an error.[30]

that is from wikipeida on pi
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