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The Egyptians used an approximation of Pi in the 20th century B.C. and probably used it for construction and building. It is often important to know the circumference of a circle and it is Pi times its diameter. They may have been the first to discover it.
A century later, the Babylonians used Pi. As time passed, the approximation they used improved.
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What year was pi discovered?
1706
Which country discovered pi?
Greece. I think.
How was pi first discovered?
dont worry about it
How many digits of pi have been discovered?
1.2411 trillion digits (1,241,100,000,000) digits of pi have been dicovered.
What other approximate values for Pi have been used and who discovered them?
Every person who has ever used the "value" of pi in a calculation has used an approximation.
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