[DOC] [TLE] The History of Pi [PAR] William L. Schaaf once said, "Probably no symbol in mathematics has evoked ... 
Ahmes wrote, "Cut off 1/9 of a diameter and construct a square upon the ... 
however, as the Chinese used the inaccurate value pi = 3 hundreds of years later
. ... height thereof; and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about" (Blatner, 
13). [DOC] [TLE] Pi - Wikipedia [PAR] The number  is a mathematical constant, the ratio of a circle's circumference to 
its diameter, ...... The Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi, around 480 AD, 
calculated that  ..... Swiss scientist Johann Heinrich Lambert in 1761 proved that 
 is irrational, meaning it is not equal to the quotient of any two whole numbers. [DOC] [TLE] Occu-: The Strange History of Counting To Pi, 3.14159265301 ... [PAR] Oct 26, 2011 ... But humans have been crunching the number Pi since people were ... a circle's 
circumference to its diameter, is usually rounded off to 3.14, but with a small 
caveat. ... number that has no limit is a puzzle that has eluded mathematicians ... 
Keng-chih of modern day China calculate pi as between 3.1415926... [DOC] [TLE] A brief history of pi | PCWorld [PAR] Mar 13, 2013 ... In honor of Pi Day, we bring you a brief history of everyone's favorite irrational 
constant. ... ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and 
his ... Chinese mathematician Zhu Chongzhi (AD 429-500) used a similar ... no 
boundsbeginning with D. F. Ferguson's calculation of pi to 710... [DOC] [TLE] Pi Day 2015: meet the man who invented  | Science | The Guardian [PAR] Mar 14, 2015 ... The symbol  was popularised in 1737 by the Swiss mathematician .... book on 
the Welsh and their numbers, including the pi links with William Jones, ... to and 
used in practice by the Indians and the Chinese way before it was ..... Now, the 
rationals Q made from whole numbers by building fractions p/q . [DOC] [TLE] Origins: 3.14159265 - Biblical Archaeology Society [PAR] Mar 14, 2016 ... as it originally appeared in Archaeology Odyssey, March/April 2000. ... 
Unfortunately, pi is also irrational, meaning that it is impossible to calculate its ... 
In the fifth century C.E., the Chinese mathematician Tsu Chung-Chih and his son 
..... are rounded to the nearest whole cubit, can the given numbers work? [DOC] [TLE] Mathematics - SkyPoint Communications [PAR] Contents: Introduction * Accuracy and Precision * Ancient Mathematics ... 
between a sample and what you would get if you tested a whole population. ... 
take the number we call "pi" -- the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its 
diameter. ..... in its description of the bronze sea, rounding off the dimensions to 
the ratio 30:10. [DOC] [TLE] Round fractions up - PHP [PAR] Returns the next highest integer value by rounding up value if necessary. .... way, 
like zomis2k said it just rounds up _or_ down to the nearest non-decimal number. 
.... I originally developed this as an example of write-only code: to make the ... 
This returns the incorrect result, 31.01 which as any junior in mathematics knows. [DOC] [TLE] The Musical Significance of Archaic Chinese Jades of the PI ... - JStor [PAR] Originally believed to have been written much earlier, the work has more recently 
... 9: "No Chinese disc-form has been as much discussed as the Pi, the symbol of 
heaven .... Now, the making of a round and even disk with a circular bore in the 
.... disks where the chipped-off areas have been carefully polished along the irre. [DOC] [TLE] who came up with this? mathematics history in ... - Carroll Collected [PAR] Lesson #2 Approximating Pi, Archimedes Style. 4. Lesson #3 ... implies that 
mathematics is a very rigid discipline with no room for creativity and discovery. ..... 
the whole circumference. ... so Eratosthenes number was only off by about 0.4%. 
.... pi. Chinese mathematicians

Question: Originally, Chinese mathematicians rounded off pi to this whole number
Answer: 3