Cox Trivia
A fun dose of fun trivia every now and then.
Friday, March 14, 2014
Pi Day
The approximate value of ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter has been known for thousands of years. But in what century did mathematicians start using the Greek symbol Pi (π) to represent that value?
1700s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jones_%28mathematician%29
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