Thursday, March 14, 2013

pi


The Babylonians are credited as having recorded the first value for Pi (around 2000 BCE) and they used (25/8).

Ludolph Van Ceulen (1540 - 1610) spent most of his life working out Pi to 35 decimal places.

In 1947 it took ENIAC 70 hours to calculate 2037 digits of pi.

9/1/2010, Shigeru Kondo, a Japanese systems engineer and Alexander J. Yee, an American computer science student, have calculated the value of pi to five trillion digits - setting the new world record for the most digits of pi calculated.

1 comment:

  1. Pi is the most delicious number. Except maybe for 12½

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