was copied from the Tamil symbol pronounced as "EE" represented by "ஈ", and there is a connection between a flying insect (which is the meaning of this symbol) and how the value of PI (22/7) is calculated, and it was Tamil that found this first?
2006-09-26 04:36:36 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I doubt it.
The "pi" of the Greek alphabet seems to come from the "pe" of Phoenician alphabet (associated with the word "mouth") and was only later used as a mathematical symbol for the ratio of the diameter to the circumference of a circle.
22/7 is a very crude approximation of Pi.
2006-09-26 04:47:26 · answer #1 · answered by Richard 7 · 69⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, but no. As Richard said, Pi is derived from a Phoenician precursor.
Furthermore The Greek language in the form it was used is older than Tamil and also completely linguisticallly unrelated (Greek is an Indo-European language, like Hindi, but Tamil is part of a group called Dravidian languages - including Kannada, Malayalam and Telugu).
In terms of your other claim re: flies and the ratio 22/7 such rumours are put about by Tamil nationalists who know nothing about the history and development of Tamil as a language and are belying the evidence.
2006-09-28 02:49:12 · answer #2 · answered by the last ninja 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the ratio itself dates back to Babylon , ancient Egypt, with various approximations as old as 2 millenia BC (and maybe more)
by 200BC, Archimedes had 3.1419
known approximations from India date back to 500 AD only
the greek letter "pi" was proposed by Euler in the 18th century, because it was the firts letter of the Greek work for "perimeter", and cultivated people at that time in Europe still often used Greek and/or Latin in learned texts (where we would use English today).
the Greek alphabet originated in the Phoenician alphabet around 900 BC. Phoenician originated in Proto-Canaanite alphabet around 1'500BC, and is considered to have evolved into nearly every alphabet in use today.
A far as I'm aware there is nothing to support what you claim, either on the ratio "pi" itself, or the letter. Apart from a very strong patriotismof course ;-)
2006-09-26 11:51:42 · answer #3 · answered by AntoineBachmann 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
THE pi symbol is from greek alphabet
2006-09-26 11:44:47 · answer #4 · answered by sam (joe thornton) pro 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
22/7 is NOT how PI is calculated. 22/7 is a rough estimation. more like an abbreviation.
2006-09-26 11:44:43 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No one with an ounce of sense. Probably someone who just smoked an ounce of sensamilla.
2006-09-26 11:44:38 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
posibly but whoever had enough patience to calculate pie for that long of a time is pretty ridiculous it never ends
2006-09-26 11:46:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
ya
2006-09-26 11:54:16 · answer #8 · answered by varun_ramu311 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋