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英国康沃尔郡

兰洋夸特墓室,英国康沃尔郡 (© Guy Edwardes/Minden Pictures)

兰洋夸特墓室,英国康沃尔郡 (© Guy Edwardes/Minden Pictures)

只是天上的圆周率。。。(It’s just pi in the sky...)

新石器时代的人类建造这个建筑是为了庆祝圆周率日吗?不太可能。圆周率日是一个相对较新的现象——由一位物理学家在1988年发明,并在2009年被美国国会指定为全国性节日。但几乎可以肯定,这已经是庆祝数学常数最受欢迎的节日。虽然圆周率日是一个年轻的传统,但从古代开始,圆周率(Pi)本身就一直是一个令人着迷的数字,当时它最初被计算为一个圆的周长与直径之比。
原文:
Did Neolithic humans build this structure to celebrate Pi Day? Not likely. Pi Day is a relatively recent phenomenon – invented by a physicist in 1988 and designated by the US Congress a national holiday in 2009. But it's already almost certainly the most popular holiday celebrating a mathematical constant. While Pi Day is a young tradition, the number π (pi) itself has been a fascination since antiquity, when it was first calculated as the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diametre.
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