Today is Pi Day! Our Four Favorite Math-Related Songs
But first, some trivia:
- Pi is the symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its
- With the use of computers, Pi has been calculated to over 1 trillion
digits past the decimal.
- Pi is an irrational and transcendental number
meaning it will continue infinitely without repeating.
- The symbol for pi was first used in 1706 by William Jones, but was popular after it was adopted by the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler in 1737
According to programmer Chris McEvoy, Kate Bush sang this incorrectly. "She got the first 53 decimal places correct, but then Kate sang "threeeeee oneeeee" when she should have sang "zeeeeeeerooo" instead. She recovered for the next 24 digits but then it went to hell in a handbasket when she missed out the next 22 digits completely before finishing with a precise rendition of her final 37 digits."