Historical Overview of Pi
- The number Pi is the ratio of circumference
- discovered by the ancient Babylonians
- In the 5th century, Tsu Chung-Chi confirmed that 3.1415926 <
< 3.1415927
- Leonardo Da Vinci, Gregory, Euler and Leibniz worked with pi and added valuable information to the number.
- Today, there are over 100,000 numbers of Pi
source:
http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~huberty/math5337/groupe/overview.html
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