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Name: What is pi?
ID: m14539
Language: English (en)
Summary: This module presents a brief introduction to the commonly-assigned value of pi (approximately 3.1415).
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords: pi, π
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5 plus MathML//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY 2.0)
Authors: Christopher Schmitz (cdschmit@uiuc.edu)
Copyright Holders: Christopher Schmitz (cdschmit@uiuc.edu)
Maintainers: Christopher Schmitz (cdschmit@uiuc.edu)
Version: 1.2 (history)
Created: May 21, 2007 12:00 pm GMT-5
Revised: Aug 16, 2007 1:11 pm GMT-5

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Version: 1.2 Aug 16, 2007 1:11 pm GMT-5 by Christopher Schmitz
Changes: 
presentation to introduction
Version: 1.1 May 22, 2007 9:35 am GMT-5 by Christopher Schmitz
Changes: 
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