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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixteenth letter of the Greek alphabet, used by mathematicians as a symbol for the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. It is sometimes called the Ludolphian number, after Ludolph von Ceulen who computed its value late in the 16th Century...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Shcmks's Slip | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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