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  2. Indiana pi bill - Wikipedia

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    The Indiana pi bill was bill 246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly, one of the most notorious attempts to establish mathematical truth by legislative fiat. Despite its name, the main result claimed by the bill is a method to square the circle .

  3. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    He also suggested that 3.14 was a good enough approximation for practical purposes. He has also frequently been credited with a later and more accurate result, π ≈ 3927 ⁄ 1250 = 3.1416 (accuracy 2·10 −6), although some scholars instead believe that this is due to the later (5th-century) Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi. [17]

  4. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    Pi, (equal to 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288) is a mathematical sequence of numbers. The table below is a brief chronology of computed numerical values of, or ...

  5. Shape of the universe - Wikipedia

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    The most familiar is the aforementioned 3-torus universe. In the absence of dark energy, ... " π 39 (Pi and the size of the Universe)". Numberphile. Brady Haran.

  6. Pi - Wikipedia

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    The number π (/ p aɪ / ⓘ; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.

  7. Friedmann equations - Wikipedia

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    The first Friedmann equation contains a discrete parameter k = +1, 0 or −1 depending on whether the shape of the universe is a closed 3-sphere, flat (Euclidean space) or an open 3-hyperboloid, respectively. [5] If k is positive, then the universe is "closed": starting off on some paths through the universe return to the starting point. Such a ...

  8. List of formulae involving π - Wikipedia

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    where H is the hypervolume of a 3-sphere and r is the radius. S V = 2 π 2 r 3 {\displaystyle SV=2\pi ^{2}r^{3}} where SV is the surface volume of a 3-sphere and r is the radius.

  9. Euler's identity - Wikipedia

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    is pi, the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. Euler's identity is named after the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler . It is a special case of Euler's formula e i x = cos ⁡ x + i sin ⁡ x {\displaystyle e^{ix}=\cos x+i\sin x} when evaluated for x = π {\displaystyle x=\pi } .