The History of Pi A little known verse in the bible reads “And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other; it was round all about, and his height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it about(I Kings 7, 23).” This passage from the bible demonstrates the ancient nature of the irrational number pi. Pi in fact is mentioned in a number of verses throughout …showed first 75 words of 1229 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1229 total…made the most progress in the calculation of pi. Kanada found pi to 4 billion places, and soon after Borwien, a German mathematician found pi to 10 billion places, a great leap from the biblical approximation of 3. Today you can download files off the internet of values of pi to 2.5 million places. On the next page you can examine pi to 50,000 places, a relatively low number for today’s standards, however still impressive in its own way.