Raspberry Pi

harveyp6 said:
DaveHerns said:
Reminds me of the TV series Educating Essex where the girl says " what is Pi ? "
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Where did it come from?....... :LOL:
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Do you mean Pi, Essex or the Television :D .

Pi:
It seems that ancient Middle Eastern civilistaions were there long before modern Western mathematicians.
earliest known written records to throw light on the subject are the Susa mathematical tablets, written in cuneiform about 2000 B.C., and discovered in the 1930s at the site of the ancient city of Susa (now known as Shush, Iran, but try to keep it quiet). At least one Babylonian tablet states that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to the perimeter of an inscribed hexagon is (in modern notation) 1:0.96, implying a value of p=3.125, a value that is too small by about half a percent. But despite this one close approximation, it seems that the usual value in ancient Mesopotamia was the much cruder value p=3, too small by about 4.5%
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http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2036/who-invented-pi

TV:
Fellow Scotsman John Logie Baird came up with the first TV system but nowadays, American Philo Farnsworth is often credited as being the inventor of electronic television as we know it today.

Essex:
It's always been there :D .
 
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