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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
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)
Latest version: 1.3 (history)
First publication date: May 21, 2007 12:00 pm -0500
Last revision to module: Feb 19, 2009 10:30 am -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.3 Feb 19, 2009 10:30 am -0600 by Christopher Schmitz
Changes: 
Removed MathML.
Version: 1.2 Aug 16, 2007 1:11 pm -0500 by Christopher Schmitz
Changes: 
presentation to introduction
Version: 1.1 May 22, 2007 9:35 am -0500 by Christopher Schmitz
Changes: 
First Published.

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