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  2. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    The first to use an electronic computer (the ENIAC) to calculate π [25] 70 hours 2,037: 1953: Kurt Mahler: Showed that π is not a Liouville number: 1954 S. C. Nicholson & J. Jeenel Using the NORC [26] 13 minutes 3,093: 1957 George E. Felton: Ferranti Pegasus computer (London), calculated 10,021 digits, but not all were correct [27] [28] 33 ...

  3. Pi - Wikipedia

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    The number π (/ p aɪ /; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, approximately equal to 3.14159. The number π appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics .

  4. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    In 1789, the Slovene mathematician Jurij Vega improved John Machin's formula to calculate the first 140 digits, of which the first 126 were correct. [32] In 1841, William Rutherford calculated 208 digits, of which the first 152 were correct.

  5. Liu Hui's π algorithm - Wikipedia

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    Liu Hui's method of calculating the area of a circle. Liu Hui's π algorithm was invented by Liu Hui (fl. 3rd century), a mathematician of the state of Cao Wei.Before his time, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was often taken experimentally as three in China, while Zhang Heng (78–139) rendered it as 3.1724 (from the proportion of the celestial circle to the diameter ...

  6. A Google employee broke the world record for calculating pi - AOL

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    Google engineer Emma Haruka Iwao has calculated pi to 31 trillion digits, breaking the world record.

  7. William Shanks - Wikipedia

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    In addition to calculating π, Shanks also calculated e and the Euler–Mascheroni constant γ to many decimal places. He published a table of primes (and the periods of their reciprocals) up to 110,000 and found the natural logarithms of 2, 3, 5 and 10 to 137 places. During his calculations, which took many tedious days of work, Shanks was ...

  8. Zu Chongzhi - Wikipedia

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    It is said that the treatise contained formulas for the volume of a sphere, cubic equations and an accurate value of pi. [5] This book has been lost since the Song dynasty. His mathematical achievements included the Daming calendar (大明曆) introduced by him in 465. distinguishing the sidereal year and the tropical year. He measured 45 years ...

  9. 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 ...