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Hey for my Algerbra class, our teacher told us that we could get extra credit if we told him Who Invented Pi (mathmatically speaking) so I thought this would be the perfect place to turn to.

He invented the Screw of Archimedes, a device to lift water, and played a major role in the defense of Syracuse against a Roman Siege, inventing many war machines ... A listing of Pi to 10,000 digits,

[The Discovery of Pi] ... Pi Discovered - 500 AD; Indian mathematicians were especially skilled in arithmetic, methods of calculation, algebra, and trigonometry.

The value of Pi has a great value in our scientific life, the importance of that value was gained through the ages.

Nobody knows how pi was discovered. We do know that pi has been known for over 4000 years. ... In 2000 BC the Babylonians used 3 1/4 as an approximation to pi, and the Egyptians used 256/81.

1699: Sharp used Gregory's results to get 71 digits; ... 1719: de Lagny found 112 digits; ... 1853: Twelve years later, Rutherford was able to get 440 digits; 1873: Shanks got to the 707 place, but 527 of

THE VALUE OF PI....Warren Buffett writes today in the Washington Post that the United States House of Representatives is about to commit an act of lunacy. It is prepared to pass a bill mandating...

Until very recently there were just two methods used to compute pi, one invented by the Greek mathematician Archimedes, and the other by the Scottish mathematician James Gregory.

For strange as it sounds, 'nothing' had to be invented, and then it took thousands of years to catch on. More >>>; Programme 2: Pi;