Archimedes' method of approximating π with polygons, and similar techniques developed in China and India, would be the dominant way mathematicians would approach the calculation of the digits π ...

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An example of how to apply Archimedes's algorithm. Image credit: Fredrik via Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain Between 250 BCE and about 1500 CE, if you wanted to calculate pi, polygons were all ...

Archimedes’ treatise Measurement of a Circle — which helped spread his process for calculating pi around the world, according to the American Mathematical Society —was part of this manuscript.

Archimedes, a Greek mathematician who lived in Sicily, was the first person to calculate the iconic first digits of pi, 3.14.

Archimedes' method of approximating π with polygons, and similar techniques developed in China and India, would be the dominant way mathematicians would approach the calculation of the digits π ...