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    Where does the number pi first show up in recorded history?

    Question #51157. Asked by eytank. (Sep 22 04 4:50 PM)


    romeomikegolf

    		Somewhere around 1650BC.

    http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html

    Sep 22 04, 8:54 PM
    rlaj

    		Archimedes was the first to discover pi. He is worth reading up on, an amazing mathematician. Simply put, he figured out that the circumference of a circle is roughly 3.14 times the diameter. There was a great tv show on him the other night.

    Sep 23 04, 2:29 PM

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