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Exotic Numbers - Pi

The document discusses the mathematical constant pi (π), its historical discovery, and significance in various fields such as mathematics, physics, and engineering. It highlights contributions from ancient civilizations, including the Babylonians and Archimedes, and its modern applications, particularly by NASA. The document also includes fun facts and a timeline of pi's calculation advancements.

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Exotic Numbers - Pi

The document discusses the mathematical constant pi (π), its historical discovery, and significance in various fields such as mathematics, physics, and engineering. It highlights contributions from ancient civilizations, including the Babylonians and Archimedes, and its modern applications, particularly by NASA. The document also includes fun facts and a timeline of pi's calculation advancements.

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Exotic

Numbers-
Pi
By Deiπkaa and Mythili (⌐■_■)
Woah!
This was just to get ur attention ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
"No human investigation can be
called real science if it cannot be
demonstrated mathematically"
—LEONARDO DA VINCI
TABLE OF CONTENTS
01. 02. 03.
INTRODUCTION Discovery History

04. 05. 06.


Significance Use in daily life CONCLUSION
01
Introduction
(Amazingly detailed
description)
What’s Pi
Beloved all over the world, pi is simply the
endless number with no repeating
patterns (π = 3.14 ...) It is used to calculate
the circumference of a circle, among a
multitude of other applications in
mathematics, physics and engineering
02 Discovery
By multiplying the radius of a circle by three,
the ancient Babylonians determined its area,
yielding the value pi = three.

Approximately 1900–1680 BC Babylonian tablets show a


value of 3.125 for, which is a more accurate estimate.

The Rhind Papyrus, which dates to around


1650 BC, sheds light on ancient Egyptian
mathematics.
The calculation used by the Egyptians to determine
the area of a circle yielded a value of approximately
3.1605 for π.
History
One of the finest mathematicians in ancient history, Archimedes of Syracuse (287–212
BC), performed the first calculation of pi. Archimedes calculated the areas of two regular
polygons—the polygon contained within the circle and the polygon within which the
circle was encircled—using the Pythagorean Theorem to approximate the area of a circle.

The areas of the polygons provided upper and lower bounds for the size of the circle
since the actual area of the circle is between the areas of the inscribed and
circumscribed polygons. Archimedes was aware that his discovery of the value of was
simply a rough approximation within given bounds. Archimedes demonstrated that lies
between 3 1/7 and 3 10/71 in this manner.

Brilliant Chinese mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi (429–501 bc) adopted a


similar strategy. The Archimedes approach would not have been familiar to Zu Chongzhi,
but little is known about his work because his book has vanished. He determined t
355/113 is the number for the ratio of a circle's circumference diameter.
He must have started with an inscribed regular 24,576-gon
and conducted extensive calculations involving hundreds of
square roots carried out to 9 decimal places in order to
calculate this accuracy for.

In the 1700s, mathematicians first used the Greek letter. The


symbol was first used by William Jones in 1706, but Leonhard
Euler adopted it in 1737 and made it more widely used.

A method to compute based on probability was developed


by a French mathematician named Georges Buffon in the
eighteenth century.
04 Significance
(The most awe-inspiring subtitle)
Significance of pi
Pi is a well recognized
Pi is used in mathematical constant
mathematics to used all over the world . In
represent a constant, ancient times it is used as a
approximately equal secret code for some
confidential works.
to 3.14159.
Pi appears in the Pi plays a significant
governing biophysical role in the calculation
laws of cell division
of the circumference
timing, heart beats,
of a circle and even
breathing cycle, and
NASA uses it for
circadian rhythms
controlling sleep-wake calculating spacecraft
patterns trajectories.
Pi is god’s telephone number
- Alexander Graham Bell
04
Use in daily life
Pi is not useless, y’know?
Use in daily life
NASA regularly uses Nasa uses a technique called
a “pi transfer” used by the
PI to calculate
Cassini spacecraft to complete
trajectories of a maneuver to fly by Saturn’s
spacecraft. moon Titan flyby.

NASA uses Pi is to determine


the size of craters and
extrasolar planets, figuring
out how much propellent a
spacecraft has, and learning
what an asteroid is made
of.
4 FUN FACTS ABOUT PI

DON’T KNOW THE TRUE THE PYRAMIDS WERE


AREA OF A CIRCLE BUILT WITH PI

WE KNOW MORE THAN PI HAS BEEN PI FOR 250


30 TRILLION DIGITS YEARS
PI TIMELINE

1706 1737 1957 2010

FIRST PI EULER COMPUTING COMPUTERS


CALCULATION ADOPTED PI DIGITS OF PI OF PI
Performed by L. Euler adopted the Pi was calculated 1,000 computers
Archimedes of Greek letter using computer to were used to get
Syracuse, the first pi representing 7/22 in calculate 2,037 to the two
calculation mathematics digits of Pi trillionth bit of Pi
DID YOU KNOW...

123456
...that the sequence 123456 does not occur in
the first million digits of pi?
THANKS!
Thanks for listening 👈(ﾟヮﾟ👈)

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