Pi, by definition, is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to the diameter, but there is so much more that it represents. This number is a mystery to all that research it and is being discovered to hold significance in other areas as well. Pi is also relevant in advanced mathematics as well, dealing with periodic functions and continued fractions. No one will ever know the absolute full number, because pi is irrational, meaning that its decimal places go on infinitely without repeating or ending in zeros, but as technology advances we may see a day when pi has an ending. This irrational number has fascinated the world since the beginning of thought, and throughout its history the expected value of pi has always been surprisingly close to the …show more content…
This puts the value of pi at the whole number of three. Skeptics of the bible and it’s validity, use this information to try and disprove the accuracy and truth of the bible. The Book of Kings, in which this is located, was edited by ancient Jews as a religious work around 550 BC, at that time pi was already known by a much more accurate number. Perhaps the editors of the bible were just not aware of the discovery of Ahmes’ number, but this doubt puts pi in a rather unexpected place, in religion and science.
Around 469 to 399 BC, two of Socrates pupils tried to square the circle by theorizing that if you double the number of sides in a polygon enough, it will become a circle. It failed to a degree (it must be because Archimedes has taken the credit for this discovery), until Archimedes came in 287-212 BC. Archimedes is considered one of the most brilliant mathematicians in the known ancient world. He worked out that 223/71<22/7, which was the first theoretical calculation of pi. His results were measured by approximating the area of a circle based upon the area of a regular polygon inscribed within the circle and the area of a regular