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A Brief History of Ï. Pi has been known for almost 4000 yearsâbut even if we calculated the number of seconds in those 4000 years and calculated pi to that number of places, we would still only be approximating its actual value. Hereâs a brief history of finding pi:he ancient Babylonians calculated the area of a circle by taking 3 times the square of its radius, which gave a value of pi = 3. One Babylonian tablet (ca. 1900â1680 BC) indicates a value of 3.125 for pi, which is a closer approximation.
Pi, given its name after the Greek letter, was not named so by the Greeks, nor did they invent the concept. It is true that the Ancient Egyptians first discovered the number, and there are references to a number in an Egyptian scroll dating to 1650 BCE.rchimedes approximated it in about 200 BCE in fraction form, since the Greeks did not yet use decimals. He expressed pi as a fraction similar to 3 1/7, which is in decimals approximately 3.14. Mathematicians and scientists left pi at Archimedesâ calculation for centuries.