| Interesting Math History |
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What is the 'Ludolphian Number' ? |
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As the end of Sixteenth Century Ludolph Van Ceulen calculated 35 decimal place for pi. In his will, he requested that these
35 numbers be engraved on his tombstone.
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In Germany they still refer to this number as Ludolphian Number.
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Around 200 BC, Archimedes of Syracuse found that pi is somewhere about 3.14.
Pi (which is a letter in the Greek alphabet) was discovered by a Greek mathematician named Archimedes.
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In June 1995, the Japanese mathematician Yasumasa Kanada found p correct to 3,221,220,000 decimal places.
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Thus, p = 3.14159265358979....
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