Pi Came From The Greek People
Here are some facts and figures about pi. Pi (as a decimal) = 3.14 Pi (as a fraction) = 22/7
Here are some facts and figures about pi. Pi (as a decimal) = 3.14 Pi (as a fraction) = 22/7
who invented, or came up with "pi" in math? How did they come up with the estimation of 3.14?
Pi came from the Babylonians in 3000 B.C.
Archimedes
I can get you started with one: Nobody who knows anything about it calls it "the pi of a circle". Pi is pi.
Pi has more than a million digits to it. Its 3.14159...etc
pi is one of letters in greek alphabet. === Wow, what a crappy answer you got. Try this, http://cogitosmath.wordpress.com/2010/02/26/interesting-pi-facts/ The most thorough list of pi tidbits that I have ever seen... because I WROTE IT as a consolidation of facts accumulated from around the internet. I tried not to make it too mathy.
Pythagorus.
The Greek alphabet.
William Jones, a Welsh mathematician, first used the pi symbol in 1706.
aryabhatta discovered it as 3.1416