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| url = http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html  
 
| url = http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/HistTopics/Pi_through_the_ages.html  
 
| title = A history or Pi
 
| title = A history or Pi
| accessdate = 2012-02-11}}</ref> who selected  '''<big><math>\pi</math></big>''' because it is the first letter of the [[Greek]] word for [[perimeter]] (''περίμετρος''), i.e. the circumference of a circle is its perimeter.  A [[Swiss]] mathematician, [[Leonhard Euler]], then popularized the notation in 1737 as he did for other symbols.<ref>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/man-who-invented-pi</ref>  The [[infinite]] length of ostensibly [[random]] decimal points in <math>\pi</math> lead to the assumption that pi is a [[normal number]]: it contains every possible finite sequence of digits, and therefore, every birthday, even the equivalent of every book ever written.  Simply stated, '''''pi contains pi'''''.
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| accessdate = 2012-02-11}}</ref> who selected  '''<big><math>\pi</math></big>''' because it is the first letter of the [[Greek]] word for [[perimeter]] (''περίμετρος''), i.e. the circumference of a circle is its perimeter.  A [[Swiss]] mathematician, [[Leonhard Euler]], then popularized the notation in 1737 as he did for other symbols.<ref>https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/man-who-invented-pi</ref>  The [[infinite]] length of ostensibly [[random]] decimal points in <math>\pi</math> lead to the assumption that pi is a [[normal number]]: it contains every possible finite sequence of digits, and therefore, every birthday, even the equivalent of every book ever written.  <!--Simply stated, '''''pi contains pi'''''.-->
    
<big><math>\pi</math></big> is referenced in the [[Bible]], literature, and even as the title of a movie.  It is central to the most famous identity in all of mathematics:  [[Euler's Formula|Euler's Identity]].
 
<big><math>\pi</math></big> is referenced in the [[Bible]], literature, and even as the title of a movie.  It is central to the most famous identity in all of mathematics:  [[Euler's Formula|Euler's Identity]].
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