Pi Day is an
unofficial holiday commemorating
the existence of the mathematical constant Pi. The Pi Day is observed on March 14 (or 3/14 in month/day (date format) since 3, 1 and 4 are the three most significant digits of π in
the decimal form. In 2009, the United States House of Representatives supported
the designation of Pi Day. This was the day to celebrate the existence and importance of the
mathematical constant. The Masuk
High School students, with help from local
preschoolers, assembled a pi paper chain made of 75,000 links ,using
a different color for each of the ten digits of pi .Thus they set the record
for the Longest Pi Chain.
Students
at Masuk High School found every grand
way possible to mark the occasion in a
geometric style by making the pi chain
in a circle formation. A
color-coded paper-link chain was wound around itself many times over, forming a
giant circle in the middle of the Masuk High School gymnasium floor. Mary
Ahlers, Masuk Math Department chairwoman, said pi is
3.14, and the numbers to the right of the four go on into infinity and never
repeat. Pi is the measure around a circle and the measure of the longest
distance across divided to get 3.14. On Pi Day, March 14, Ahlers and the
high school’s math teachers decided their students should go for the world record
for making a loop paper chain representing digits in pi.
The
current record of the pi chain having 75000 links easily surpassed the previous Longest Pi Chain record of mere 65,000 links. Ahlers who was
the Maths Head pointed out that the chain measured a length
of more than a mile when stretched. Pi is
an irrational number that represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to
its diameter. Its decimal representation never ends or repeats. Mathematicians
have thus far computed 5 trillion digits of the decimal expression. Different shades of
colored paper represented different numbers on the paper pi chain. The circle was several layers thick
and it took 30 students to move it on a large tarp.
The Longest Pi chain with
75000 links was set by Masuk High School Students at Monroe, Connecticut, United
States of America on April 8,2011.
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