What does Pi equal to?

Sorry, but Pi does not "equal" 3.142. However, 3.142 is the "closest" of the given answers.

OMG! Here we go again. Everyone criticising the author even though she indicated that PI had no end and is, therefore, an APPROXIMATION! Leave her alone! As in so many cases, she has taken time out to construct these questions for the FUN and LOVE of the quiz! Get a life! Or better still, just leave the club!

3.142 is not an exact but an approximate value of Pi. Actually, its common approximate equivalent is 3.14159 and so on...making it an infinite decimal.

Horrible question. Pi is not equal to ANY number with a finite number of digits. Pi is APPROXIMATED by 3.142 but certainly NOT equal to it. Any junior high school math student can tell you this!

The question does not show Pi, it shows PI which is NOT the same as Pi. I took the question to be Pl (lower case 'L'). In optics, PL or Pl (lower case L) means 'Plano' which is zero. I'm an optometrist and use this abbreviation daily.

Correct answer: None of the above. It's a non-ending decimal at least to one million decimal places, but 3.14159 is close enough for gov't work. ;)

Howard Fernsler, Pi is NOT equivalent to 22/7. That figure works out to 3.1428571429 when carried out to 10 decimals. Pi is 3.1415926535 when carried to ten decimals. 22/7 is merely a close, but inaccurate approximation.

Pi not Pl

Dan Kaiser, last paragraph of the answer explains how its rounded up.

williamrlaughlin, I enjoy your answers most of all, the closest to what goes through my mind but with such patience.

Jerry Edwards, couldn't agree 💯 more! 💋

A clever mnemonic device for a useable value of Pi is "May I have a large container of coffee, madam." 3.14159265

Dan Kaiser, I agree, always understood there were infinite digits after the decimal point, we always wrote it as 3.1416

Sorry, but it does show Pi Laura Fletcher,

We were taught that pi was 3.142 in school...approximately...and so I am thrilled that I remembered that from approximately 60 years ago...give or take a year or so, lol

Three decimals is adequate for most work but I know a school system that teaches Pi = 22/7 !! Oh well.

Pi explanations never made sense to me. I always questioned people who seemed to blindly understand and accept it.

Jeff Miller, Don't they teach reading comprehension in school anymore. The author of this question state that 'In real sense the equal of Pi has no end so it is usually given in the approximation of 3.142.'

Pi = Private investigater. Hate equations

Dan Kaiser, That's the normally accepted approximated number to three decimal places. Nobody is going to use a version of 64 decimal places!

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earlpg Are you kidding? i HAD no idea.

3.1417is same thing if you round up the 7

Easy peasy