IT'S ALL ABOUT THAT ONE NUMBER PI

First Serious Project

Number Pi has a very deep history and thats one of many reasons why 1 human is not enough for this project

Someone named Ludolph Van Ceulen from Germany spent most of his life calculating the first 36 digits of Pi.

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Adoption of the symbol π.

In the earliest usages, the Greek letter π was an abbreviation of the Greek word for periphery (περιφέρεια), and was combined in ratios...

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Antiquity of π!

The best-known approximations to π dating before the Common Era were accurate to two decimal places; this was improved upon in Chinese...

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The number π? What is that?

The number π (/paɪ/) is a mathematical constant. Originally defined as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, it now has...