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QJM Advance Access originally published online on February 18, 2009
QJM 2009 102(6):439-440; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcp008
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The magic of Pi ({pi})

David Galton

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Pi can be taken as a symbol for one's education. The deeper one goes into it the more mysterious it becomes and the more ramifications one can find. You can go as far with pi as your abilities can take you. Pi is first met in elementary geometry at school and it occurs in one of the first equations that you can solve; that is to find the circumference or areas of circles. For pi you substitute the fraction 22/7 and the answer comes out right enough to satisfy the school master. In the sixth form when doing finite and infinite series you learn that there does not appear to be an exact number for pi. Although it is a simple ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, the decimal places appear . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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