Great Seal of the United States
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| Materials: meter stick, measuring tape, calculator.
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Activity:
- Start at the Century of Flight Hanger lobby. Enter the double
doors.
- Stop at the Great Seal of the United States carpet.
- Find the diameter of the Great Seal from the outermost blue border.
- Calculate the circumference using pi.
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| Do You Know? There is no practical use
for a measurement of pi that is accurate to more than fifteen or twenty
decimal places yet mathematicians continue to devote their lives to
finding more digits and new ways to calculate them.
3.14159265358979323846..How many digits is pi currently calculated to? |
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