How to Use pi in a Sentence

pi

noun

• So what role did the cultishly beloved Pi play in the growth of pi?
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The area of a unit circle is pi, as Newton well knew, so when x=1, the area under the curve is a quarter of the unit circle, .
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• Neither pi nor Pi Day has anything to do with pie, but most people don’t like math.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• Science What is pi—and why is there an entire day devoted to it?
  — Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• The concept of pi has been around for about 4,000 years when it was used by ancient Babylonians.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2022
• That’s certainly a well-rounded career worth of, well, pi.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• Isaac Newton worked out how to calculate pi to 16 digits.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2021
• Tuesday’s first event, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature lots of numerical fun, a pi parade and wrap up with the eating of pie.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Venus is volcanically alive, stunning new find shows What is pi—and why is there an entire day devoted to it?
  — Magazine, 16 Mar. 2023
• Most March 14 celebrations are obsessed with the number pi.
  — Alissa S. Crans, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2022
• This flag features the symbol for the infinite number pi in gold, which represents the infinite number of partners people who are polyamorous can have.
  — Kiersten Willis, ajc, 8 June 2022
• For the math-averse, pi is an irrational number (as in can’t be represented by a fraction) used in geometry formulas, such as the area of a circle.
  — Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 13 Mar. 2023
• Each year, the concept of pi seems to grow annually in crossover popularity, via memes, novelty T-shirts, and all the attendant hoopla around Pi Day.
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• However, one way some arborists estimate a beech tree’s age is to divide a tree’s circumference in inches by 3.14 (or pi) and multiply by six.
  — Washington Post, 2 May 2022
• There is no experiment in the history of humanity that will conjure pi.
  — Mike Errico, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2022
• In The Startup Wife, a brilliant coder (with a pi tattoo, no less) writes a new algorithm and builds an app that essentially replaces religious rituals.
  — Rachel King, Fortune, 29 May 2021
• But then again, not every constant is pi, the incredible and infinite number represented by this symbol: π.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2022
• To make his esoteric formula work, Goodwin replaced pi with a far simpler, but incorrect, number: 3.2.
  — Evan McMurry, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2022
• March 14 marks Pi Day, the annual holiday in honor of the mathematical constant π (pi), the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
  — Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 14 Mar. 2023
• Wallis included a novel and inductive method of determining the value of pi, and Newton wanted to devise something similar.
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• Kyle, Texas, has a very unique brand of municipal marketing, crafting entire city ordinances around the number 3.14 - mathematical pi.
  — Annie Blanks, San Antonio Express-News, 19 Oct. 2021
• So, humans have managed to memorize incredibly long sequences of pi decimals.
  — Jeffery Delviscio, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
• So what role did the cultishly beloved Pi play in the growth of pi?
  — WIRED, 14 Mar. 2023
• The area of a unit circle is pi, as Newton well knew, so when x=1, the area under the curve is a quarter of the unit circle, .
  — Steven Strogatz, Quanta Magazine, 31 Aug. 2022
• Neither pi nor Pi Day has anything to do with pie, but most people don’t like math.
  — Amy Drew Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 12 Mar. 2021
• Science What is pi—and why is there an entire day devoted to it?
  — Magazine, 15 Mar. 2023
• The concept of pi has been around for about 4,000 years when it was used by ancient Babylonians.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2022
• That’s certainly a well-rounded career worth of, well, pi.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 14 Mar. 2023
• Isaac Newton worked out how to calculate pi to 16 digits.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 14 Mar. 2021
• Tuesday’s first event, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., will feature lots of numerical fun, a pi parade and wrap up with the eating of pie.
  — Linda Zavoral, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Jun 2024