The questions in this quiz are suitable for GCSE maths students studying approximation, rounding to decimal places, rounding to significant figures, truncation, estimating calculations, limits of ...
On π-day, one mathematician explores our fascination with pi and asks why we obsessively compute its digits. Pi Day, the International Day of Mathematics, is celebrated on 14 March, due to the date's ...
Pi Approximation Day 2023: Pi Approximation Day, celebrated on July 22nd, honours the mathematical constant π (pi). The date corresponds to the fraction 22/7, a common and simple approximation for π.
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