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π的计算历史（The calculation history of PI） Popular science article The calculation process of PI PI is one of the most famous number. From the beginning of recorded history, this number has attracted the interest of laymen and scholars. As a very important constant, PI is the first to solve problems for the round. Only by this point, it is an extremely urgent problem to find the exact approximate value of it. The same is true of the fact that thousands of years, as mathematicians strive for goals, generations of mathematicians at all times and in all lands have sacrificed their wisdom and labor for this purpose. Looking back on history, the process of human understanding of PI reflects one aspect of the development of mathematics and computing technology. The study of PI, to a certain extent, reflects the mathematical level of this region or time. The German historian of mathematics Cantor said: the accurate degree is the history of a nation of PI can be used as a measure of the country that the mathematical development level index. Until the beginning of nineteenth Century, and the value of PI should be said to be the number one problem in mathematics. In order to obtain the value of PI, humans have a long and tortuous road, its history is interesting. We can divide the calculation process into several stages. Experimental period The value of PI is estimated by experiment, which is the first stage of the calculation of pi. This estimate of PI is basically based on observations or experiments and is based on actual measurements of the circumference and diameter of a circle. In the ancient world, the value of pi = 3 was actually used for a long time. The earliest recordedin the Christian Bible in the chapter, it takes 3 pi. The description of this episode took place around 950 bc. Other, such as Babylon, India, China and other long-term use of 3 this rough and simple and practical value. In our country before Liu Hui, round one on Wednesday has been widely circulated. Chi