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PASIGHAT, 13 Mar:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh University’s (APU) mathematics department celebrated Pre-Pi Day, highlighting the significance of the mathematical constant pi and encouraging a deeper interest in the subject among students.<\/p>\n The event, aimed at promoting curiosity and creativity, featured a competitive pi-writing contest and a mathematics quiz.<\/p>\n In her welcome address, Mathematics HoD Dr Rinchin Drema said that pi is far more than a simple ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter. She also highlighted its critical role in engineering, technology, and solving complex scientific problems.<\/p>\n “Celebrating Pi Day reminds us of the beauty and usefulness of mathematics in our daily lives,” Dr Drema said, encouraging students to maintain a spirit of inquiry in the field.<\/p>\n The programme included an educational segment led by mathematics student Ojing Galing, who delivered a presentation on the history of pi, its geometric origins, and fascinating trivia regarding its infinite digits.<\/p>\n A memory contest was also conducted, during which students competed to write the most correct digits of pi from memory.<\/p>\n The celebration concluded with a general mathematics quiz that tested participants’ knowledge of pi and broader mathematical concepts.<\/p>\n Faculty members from the departments of computer science and commerce joined the session to distribute prizes to the winners of the competitions.<\/p>\n Faculty members and students from various departments of the university attended the event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" PASIGHAT, 13 Mar: The Arunachal Pradesh University’s (APU) mathematics department celebrated Pre-Pi Day, highlighting the significance of the mathematical constant pi and encouraging a deeper interest in the subject among students. The event, aimed at promoting curiosity and creativity, featured a competitive pi-writing contest and a mathematics quiz. In her welcome address, Mathematics HoD Dr […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-279476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":279490,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279476\/revisions\/279490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}