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The ancient Greeks, the word derives from a Greek word meaning 'diagonal of a circle'

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What is Pi and who invented or discovered Pi?

Pi is the relationship between the diameter and the circumference of a circle.


Who first discovered the mathematical relationship between circumference and diameter that you know as pi?

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When was pi invented or discovered?

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Nobody has yet discovered the true value of pi in mathematics because it is an irrational number and its value is the circumference of any circle divided by its diameter is equal to pi which is impossible to work out.


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Pi wasn't invented so much as discovered. Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference divided by the diameter. One could say that no one invented it, but that it was discovered. The Egyptians and the Greeks had an a approximation that we are still refining to this day. It is a transcendental (non-rational) number.


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Why is pi unique?

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