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ERIC Number: EJ290498
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 1984
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An Astounding Revelation on the History of Pi.
Posamentier, Alfred S.; Gordan, Noam
Mathematics Teacher, v77 n1 p52,47 Jan 1984
References to approximations of pi in the Bible and calculations of pi in the Egyptian Phind Papyrus are noted, followed by a finding of an eighteenth-century Polish rabbi about the exactness of the Biblical computation. (MNS)
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematical Enrichment, Mathematics Education, Mathematics History, Mathematics Instruction
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Guides - General
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Audience: Practitioners
Language: English
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