p
represent the relationship between the circumference and the
diameter of a same circle.
p
= 3.1415926535897932384626434
1/p
= 0.3183098861837906715377675
p2
= 9.8696044011
p3
= 31.0062766803
radice2
p
= 1.77245385509
radice3
p
= 1.4645918876
The
constant relationship between the area of a circle and the
square of its beam, was already to acquaintance of Babylonian
and Egyptian, but the value of such constant was uncertain.
The Greek Archimedes (287-212 a.C.) it was the first one to
expose a procedure in order to calculate the value of p, establishing
that the area of the registered regular polygons in the circle
of unitary area he stretches to the area of the same circle
as they increase the sides of the polygon. The Swiss Eulero
(1707-83) demonstrated that:
1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 +.... = p/
4.
Later on English J. Wallis (1616-1703) enunciated the equality:
2/1 2/3 4/3 4/5 6/5 6/7... = p/
2.