ANSWER: Since Pi is an irrational and transcendental number we will never know the "Full" extent of the number Pi. knowing that the earliest approximations are 1900 BC from the Babylonians, and Egyptians. Archimedes was the first to rigorously interpret Pi in 287-212 BC.
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what Englishman introduced the pi symbol, and in what year
William Jones, in 1706
It was William Jones in 1706 and pi is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet
The symbol pi (π) for the value was introduced by the English mathematician William Jones (1746-1794). Long before then, the numerical relationship between the diameter and circumference of a circle was known and used.
It was introduced by the Welsh mathematician William Jones in 1706