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Pythagoras was a Classical Greek Mathematician .

In the Classical Greek alphabet ' pi' is that funny shaped 'goal posts' symbol.

It has been been translated into modern English as the small/lower case letter 'p'.

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So to Pythagoras the 'pi' symbol was just an ordinary letter.

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Who started using the symbol pi to represent the ratio of circumference to diameter?

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