... the 1800s, and finally looking at ways that we are advancing our understanding of Pi today. The first written reference to Pi was found on tablets from Ancient Egypt and Babylon, where mathematicians had an approximate understanding of the relationship between a circle's diameter and its circumference-these civilizations approximated Pi as 25/8, or 3.12 (Arndt & Haenel, 2001). Pi was also independently ... ...

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