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Administrator 1.1 1 h1. Notations of pi
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3 This page collects the notations of the symbol "pi" which represents the length of a circle of diameter 1.
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5 h3. Descriptions of this Symbol
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7 - the OpenMath symbol [nums1#pi|http://www.openmath.org/cd/nums1.xhtml#pi]
8 - [pi in MathML3|http://www.w3.org/TR/MathML3/chapter4.html#contm.pi]
9 - [pi in MathWorld|http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Pi.html]
10 - [Pi in WikiPedia|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi]
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14 h3. Observations of pi
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18 h4. Dutch !pi1-du.png|align=right!
19 As we find in the Dutch book '[Basisboek Wiskunde|Census.Bibliography#BasisboekWiskunde-JanvandeCraats]' in page 130 the example represents the area of a circle.
20 [Download and preview the book |http://staff.science.uva.nl/~craats/BasisboekWiskunde2HP.pdf].
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24 h4. Arabic (Saudi Arabia and some provinces) !pi1-ar.png|align=right!
25 The Saudi math book in the example on the right shows {html}\\(pi\\){html} in Arabic context. {html}\\(??^2\\){html} means the square of circle's area radius and {html}\\(?\\){html} (TAH) means {html}\\(pi\\){html} which is approximately equal to 3.14.
26 [Download the high-school book|http://www2.moe.gov.sa/ebooks/9/????%20??????%20???????%20-%20?????%20???????%20??????%20-%20?????????.pdf] from ministry of education website in Saudi and find the example in page 149.
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30 h4. English !pi1-en.png|align=right!
31 We find in the English [precalculus|Census.Bibliography#precalculus-Larson-Hostetler] book the example in page A-152 represents {html}\\(pi\\){html}.
32 [Go directly to the example|http://books.google.com/books?id=g1Bul7oPMF4C&lpg=PA574&dq=Row%20matrix&pg=SL1-PA152#v=onepage&q=&f=false].
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36 h4. Finnish
37 !pi1-fi.png|align=right! {html}\\(pi\\){html} symbol is shown in the Finish book [MAOL-taulukot|Census.Bibliography#MAOL-taulukot-Otava2005] in page number 30, and it is called 'Pii (vakio)' in Finnish context.
38 [Download and preview the book|http://matriisi.ee.tut.fi/~miilumak/material/]
39 [More information from google books link|http://books.google.com/books?id=00UQAwAACAAJ&dq=maol++taulukot&hl=en&ei=9154TMW7FIiGswb4qvGyDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCUQ6AEwAA].
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45 h3. Encoding the observations of {html}\\(pi\\){html} symbol
46 [See encodings|http://devdemo.activemath.org/mathbridge/tools/symbolpresentation.cmd?order=by+Theory&lang=x-all&fmt=html&clipCoordinate=0&omsource=%3COMOBJ+xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.openmath.org%2FOpenMath%22%3E%0D%0A++%3COMS+name%3D%22pi%22+cd%3D%22nums1%22+xref%3D%22mbase%3A%2F%2Fopenmath-cds%2Fnums1%2Fpi%22+%2F%3E%0D%0A%3C%2FOMOBJ%3E&submit=View]
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