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Pi
Title: Pi
Category: Arts & Humanities
Details: Words: 734 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Pi
September 6, 2001
The Never Ending History of Pi?
Pi, the mathematical term for the number 3.141592654¡K or when spoken out loud, dozing math students are rudely awakened to think that their teacher is serving pie. Seriously though, Other than the score of last nights braves game or how many home runs Barry Bonds has hit, pi is probably the most talked about number in the mathematical world. ¡§The computation of pi is virtually the only topic …showed first 75 words of 734 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 734 total…to test the speed and accuracy of new computers. Jean Guilloud and M. Bouyer found the one-millionth digit of pi in 1973. By of course, using a computer.
Many advancements for the calculating of pi will probably have been thought of by the time I finish writing this paper, and even pi itself will have been computed well past the 55.5 billion decimal place by the end of this year. Pi is truly a marvel in itself.
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