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π的计算历史（The history of computing pi） Popular science articles The calculation process of PI PI is one of the most famous number. From the beginning of recorded history, the number of imported foreign pedestrians and scholars interests. As a very important constant, PI is the first to solve problems for the round. This point alone, try to find out its accurate approximation, is an extremely urgent problem. Indeed, for thousands of years as mathematicians goal, generations of mathematicians at all times and in all countries for their own wisdom and labor. Review the history, the process of human understanding of PI, reflects a profile of the development of mathematics and computing technology situation. PI research, reflect the mathematics level in this area or time to a certain extent. 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 make this calculation process is divided into several stages. Experimental period Through the estimation experiments on PI value, this is the first stage to calculate the. This kind of PI estimates are basically based on observation or experiment, is obtained on an actual measurement of the circumference of a circle and diameter based on the. In the ancient world, in the long-term use of pi = 3 this value. The earliest recordedin the Christian Bible in the chapter, it takes 3 pi. This section describes what happened at about 950 BC before and after. Others such as Babylon, India, Chinese also long-term use of 3 of the rough and simple and practical value. The size and a Wednesday was widely circulated round before Chinas Liu Hui. Chinas first Zhou Jing, recorded a round Wed