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- A Common Book of Pi - Includes a brief history, a page with different formulas and a list of references.
personal.bgsu.edu/~carother/pi/Pi1.html
- A Positive Light - Slice of Pi Anyone? - Article with links.
www.execpc.com/~shepler/piday.html
- A Slice Of Pi - Digits, chronology, expressions, other constants, maths books, fractals, Rolling Stones lyrics, and computer games.
www.yxq98.ukgateway.net
- A Tribute to Pi - Club and information.
www.acc.umu.se/~olletg/pi/tribute.html
- Ancient Pi: Knowers of the Universe - The concept of pi refers to the constant ratio of the diameter:circumference of any circle; irrespective of the number of degrees contained within that circle. An article in the "Science in Ancient Artwork"-Series by Charles William Johnson.
www.earthmatrix.com/ancient/pi.htm
- Archimedes' Constant - Information about the constant and some mathematical discussion of the effects.
pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/pi/pi.html
- Ask Dr. Math - Pi - Dr Math answers over 60 questions submitted by people about Pi including questions relating to the bible's relationship to it and it's relationship to trigonometry.
mathforum.org/dr.math/tocs/pi.middle.html
- Ask Dr. Math: About Pi - Explains what the constant is and a brief history. Includes resource links.
forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math/faq/faq.pi.html
- Calculating Pi - An open source endeavor for the calculation of this constant. Describes the project, the implemented algorithms for calculatinon and software downloads.
projectpi.sourceforge.net
- Chahm's Pi Page - Discusses the constant with questions, digits, and links.
students.washington.edu/~chahm/pi/pi.html
- Dale's Pi Page - Includes history of Pi, songs and jokes, poems, news and the first 1,000,000 digits.
www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/5945
- Earth Mysteries : Notes on Pi (¼ ) - An introduction to the number Pi and it's history.
witcombe.sbc.edu/earthmysteries/EMPi.html
- Elias' Pi Page - Includes Pi in the Binary number system, Pi as a sound file and Pi shown in different images.
www.befria.nu/elias/pi
- Gottlieb Math - Pi - Includes history, calculating formulae, and related links.
www.joshgottlieb.net/gottliebmath/pi
- Greg's Page of Pi - Includes introduction to Pi, 3 pieces of Pi art and links.
paperpen.com/greg/pi
- History and Philosophy of Pi - Probably no symbol of infinity in mathematics has evoked as much mystery, romanticism, misconception and human interest as the number and Greek letter of Pi. Interesting facts and trivia about Pi.
briantaylor.com/Pi.htm
- How pi? - Extracting the digits of pi from the SlOka
www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/Facility/4118/misc/pi.html
- How Stuff Works: Pi - Animated graphic helps to explain Pi and the different ways of calculating Pi, with some related links.
www.howstuffworks.com/pi.htm
- Indiana Pi Bill - Bill proposing new value of pi.
www.urbanlegends.com/legal/indiana_pi_bill.html
- Is Pi normal? - An article by Stan Wagon about the idea of normality, first introduced by E. Borel in 1909, is an attempt to formalize the notion of a real number being random.
www.astro.univie.ac.at/~wasi/PI/pi_normal.html
- Lucy Scale Developments - Pitch, Pi, and other musical paradoxes.
www.harmonics.com/lucy/ltindex.html
- One Billion Digits of Pi - Ramanujan, modular equations, and approximations.
www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/index.html
- Paul's Page of Pi - Includes introduction on why people would want to calculate Pi, four methods for calculating it, over 8000 digits, poems and music.
www.escape.com/~paulg53/math/pi.html
- Pi Approximation Day - 22/7 - that is, July 22. For the past few years, people at Chalmers University have celebrated it.
www.dtek.chalmers.se/~d3rebas/humor/piapprox.html
- pi Mathematics - Teacher resources, history, activities, and information.
www.ncsa.uiuc.edu:80/edu/RSE/RSEorange/buttons.html
- Pi Memorama - Includes a program that teaches Pi for the Mac, a page on why people learn to recite Pi and pages on how to memorise Pi.
www.ac.wwu.edu/~mnaylor/pi.html
- Pi Patterns - Images and illustrations created by using the digits of the circle constant.
www.antigravitypress.com/Math/pi
- Pi Through the Ages - History.
www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html
- Pi World Ranking List - Every sport has its championship. Every sport has its world ranking list. For many who like to memorize numbers, PI is the ultimate number, and it makes sense to create a list for people to get in touch and learn where they stand in the world of memorizers.
www.pi-world-ranking-list.com
- Pieter's Pi Memorizing Aids - Memorizing aids.
web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Moree/pirecall.htm
- Primary Hill and Rising Sun - Introduces an ancient method of approximating pi, using Pythagorean triplet triangles. Includes some early history in attempts to square the circle.
www.access.ch/circle/text1.html
- Randomly Distributed Slices of pi - An article by Charles Seife about how mathematicians slowly circle in on a proof that pi's unpredictable digits really are as random as they seem.
www.nersc.gov/~dhbailey/pi-science.html
- Science News Online: Pi à la Mode - An article describing a potential link between two disparate mathematical fieldsnumber theory and chaotic dynamicsthat could lead to a proof that every digit of pi occurs with the same frequency.
www.sciencenews.org/20010901/bob9.asp
- The Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe Pi Algorithm - Calculates digits of pi, without requiring preceding digits to be calculated.
www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/plouffe.html
- The Constant Pi - History, formulae, algorithms, programs, records of computation, and references.
numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/pi.html
- The Friends of Pi Club - News, club, links, and information.
www.astro.univie.ac.at/~wasi/PI/pi_club.html
- The Indiana Pi Law - Proposed bill for legal establishment of the value of pi.
www.inwit.com/inwit/writings/indianapilaw.html
- The Joy of Pi - Book, digits, links, facts, and quote.
www.joyofpi.com
- The Magic Piworld - Provides generated pictures and personal signs out of digits of Pi. Also a Picture Gallery, PiSign, PiPhonie.
www.piworld.de/piworld/mpw_home.htm
- The Pi Pages - Information on Pi, its history, its future, and the people involved in its calculations.
www.cecm.sfu.ca/pi
- The Pi Trivia Game - History, math, and physics questions.
eveander.com/trivia
- The Ridiculously Enhanced Pi Page - Information on links for Pi Day.
www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/pi
- The Uselessness of Pi and its Irrational Friends - Clubs, links, memorizing technique, records, art, and programs.
www.go2net.com/internet/useless/useless/pi.html
- The Web Page Dedicated to Pi - Information, 120,000 digits, links, and jokes.
www.wpdpi.com
- Your Piece of the Pi - This site describes pi's history, characteristics, and application. It also includes a distributed computing application for finding a large number of digits.
library.thinkquest.org/C0110195
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