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The symbol for pi was used by the early English mathematicians William Oughtred (1574 -1660), Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), and David Gregory (1661-1701) to designate the circumference , or periphery, of a circle. The first to use the symbol for the ratio of the circumference to the diameter was the English writer, William Jones, in a publication in 1706. The symbol was not generally used in this sense, however, until Euler (1707-1783) adopted it in 1737. (Eves p99)
By Douglas Weaver
Mathematics Coordinator, Taperoo High School
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The first time the symbol Pi was first used for Pi was in ancient Greece in their numbers. The symbol "π" was number 80 in Greece.
the first person to use pi was the amazing thomas paul pearson
Leaving in terms of pi means, through out the whole answer you have the pi symbol when you sub and compute. So basically heres an example: 2pir r=14 2pi14 28pi your answer is 28 with the pi symbol on the right but I dont know how to write it on the computer was that of help?
i think its alt+p
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