How did someone come up with the number “Pi”?

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How did someone come up with the number “Pi”?

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They’ve been measuring areas and lengths of circles, and figured out that they are related to the diameters of those same circles. Seeing how they couldn’t quite put a finger on that number’s exact value despite it being the same for all circles, they’ve decided to denote it with a special letter rather than some specific digits.

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