what is the history of pie?

Answer 1

To answer your question you need to know what pi is : It is the ratio of a circle's circumference to it's diameter. it a constant number that never changes no matter how big or small the diameter of the circle you make. Start by cut some paper circles of varying diameters say 1 inch , 2 inch and 3 inch take a ruler and mark a spot on the edge of the paper circle and position that spot on the zero mark on the ruler. Then carefully roll the paper circle along the ruler and see where you end up as that point return to the bottom of the circle . This is the circumference now divide that number by the circle diameter, you should get a close value for pi. of about 3.1 or 3.2
Back about three thousand years ago the ancient Egyptians estimated Pi to be about 3 units (you have to remember that their Mathematics were quite primitive and they had no algebra to help them at this time). Later the ancient Greeks developed and used the area of triangles filling a circle method to estimate pi to be between 22/7 and 3 10/71
around 240 B.C. However this was good enough for building things and such, but is was not good enough for mathematicans however. So a quest was started to find the true value for pi and various methods were used to get a better and better estimate for the value of pi. In about the 15th and 16 th centry A.D. Various discovery where made about Pi:

1) Pi is irrational { Meaning it does not repeat itself ever ; like 1/3} and it's transcendental { Meaning that powers of and combination of powers of pi will not give finite whole numbers } So all formulae for computing pi will be infinitely long.

2) with the devolpment of Algbera and Calculus, certain series were found to give the approximate value of pi

PI= sqr ( 6*(1 + 1/(2^2)+ 1/(3^2)+ 1/ (4^2) + 1/(5^2).....) { sqr means Square root}

or

PI = 4*( 1- (1/3)+(1/5)-(1/7)+(1/9)- (1/11)......)

Those series take a long time to come to the value of Pi that we know Pi to be today. Which bring us to our era, when electronic computers where built, and as soon as they became avialable. Mathematican were able to comfirm those series to be the appoximate value of Pi , which are still in use today. it has been calulated the about 15 billion decimal places and is so well known that it is use to gauged the speed and power of all supercomputers and computers that made today and in the future to come. and it being surpassed in the number of decimal places to be counted in. and it pop up in some interesting places.
For more pl. visit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pi#history...

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Check wikipedia for the history of pie.
You can also check Wikipedia for the history of pi

Despite lots of evidence to the contrary, there are people who insist that "cakes are round but pie are squared."

There are also people who believe that Earth is flat as a pie.

If you make a perfectly circular pie, you may note that dividing its circumference by its diameter, you get a number very close to 3.14159265.... Mmmm, pie.

nkroadcaptain has summarized the history of pie very well.

Answer 4

I helped another asker get it from a really good website. Go here to obtain some really cool info on pi, the mystery number:
http://www.math.com/tables/constants/pi.htm

Answer 5

A Brief History of Pie

Pie baked.
Pie cooled.
Pie eaten.

Answer 6

" BURP!" um, I forget.