NASA wants students to solve its Pi Day Challenge
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Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. That number is rounded to 3.14, which is why Pi Day is celebrated on March 14.
Thursday marks Pi Day, otherwise known as 3.14, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. While the average person can easily remember the rounded 3.14 ratio, the exact ratio has an infinite number of digits.
If you want a more precise pi ratio, it is 3.141592653589793238462643383279.
That info might be useful if participating in NASA's Pi Day Challenge. The space agency is challenging students, and the public as a whole, to solve four problems.
- Determine where the DSOC (Deep Space Optical Communications) technology demonstration aboard NASA’s Psyche spacecraft should aim a laser message containing a cat video so that it can reach Earth (and set a NASA record in the process).
- Figure out the change in asteroid Dimorphos’ orbit after NASA intentionally crashed its DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft into its surface.
