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  2. Pi - Wikipedia

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    With a correct value for its seven first decimal digits, this value remained the most accurate approximation of π available for the next 800 years. [58] The Indian astronomer Aryabhata used a value of 3.1416 in his Āryabhaṭīya (499 AD). [59] Fibonacci in c. 1220 computed 3.1418 using a polygonal method, independent of Archimedes. [60]

  3. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    Calculation made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, giving the value of pi to 154 digits, 152 of which were correct. First discovered by F. X. von Zach in a library in Oxford, England in the 1780s, and reported to Jean-Étienne Montucla, who published an account of it. [20] 152: 1722: Toshikiyo Kamata: 24 1722: Katahiro Takebe: 41 1739: Yoshisuke ...

  4. William Shanks - Wikipedia

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    Shanks was born in 1812 in Corsenside.He may have been a student of William Rutherford as a young boy in the 1820s, and he dedicated a book on π published in 1853 to Rutherford.

  5. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    Super PI by Kanada Laboratory [99] in the University of Tokyo is the program for Microsoft Windows for runs from 16,000 to 33,550,000 digits. It can compute one million digits in 40 minutes, two million digits in 90 minutes and four million digits in 220 minutes on a Pentium 90 MHz. Super PI version 1.9 is available from Super PI 1.9 page.

  6. What Is Pi Day? Here’s How the Mathematical Symbol Turned ...

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    Pi Day is the annual celebration of the mathematical constant, Pi. Here's what to know about its date, and why we celebrate it by eating pie. ... The value of Pi is approximately 3.14, but it has ...

  7. Leibniz formula for π - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, the Leibniz formula for π, named after Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, states that = + + = = +,. an alternating series.. It is sometimes called the Madhava–Leibniz series as it was first discovered by the Indian mathematician Madhava of Sangamagrama or his followers in the 14th–15th century (see Madhava series), [1] and was later independently rediscovered by James Gregory in ...

  8. A New Formula for Pi Is Here. And It’s Pushing Scientific ...

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    The digits of pi extend into infinity, and pi is itself an irrational number, meaning it can’t be truly represented by an integer fraction (the one we often learn in school, 22/7, is not very ...

  9. Zu Chongzhi - Wikipedia

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    His works on the accurate value of pi describe the lengthy calculations involved. Zu used the Liu Hui's π algorithm described earlier by Liu Hui to inscribe a 12,288-gon. Zu's value of pi is precise to six decimal places and for almost nine hundred years thereafter no subsequent mathematician computed a value this precise. [9]