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A recurring decimal exists when decimal numbers repeat forever. For example, \(0. \dot{3}\) means 0.333333... - the decimal never ends. Dot notation is used with recurring decimals. The dot above the ...

Around 250 B.C., the Greek mathematician Archimedes calculated the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. A precise determination of pi, as we know this ratio today, had long been of ...

Archimedes' method finds an approximation of pi by determining the length of the perimeter of a polygon inscribed within a circle (which is less than the circumference of the circle) and the perimeter ...