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Help from everybody is appreciated. — [[User:MFH|MFH]]:[[User talk:MFH|Talk]] 23:23, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
:Why not just put all of this information into a "numerical approximations" section on [[History of pi]]? There no reason to split our pi information up like this. [[User:Night Gyr|Night Gyr]] 23:43, 16 March 2006 (UTC)
:: I agree. In fact, 2 points "prevented" me from doing this initially :
::# The current content of [[History of pi]] concerns only the ''name'' of π, but finally I think this was not a major intention, but the reason is just that completion of that page had been interrupted.
::# There are 2 possibilities to "file" this information:
::## [[History of π]] with subsections : "history of the name" (not much to say), "history of numerical approximations", and maybe other subjects of "history of π" (history of formulae involving pi and/or number theoretical issues about π) etc
::## [[Numerical approximations of π]] with subsections "history", "formulae used for calculations", "uses of numerical approximations" etc.
::In view of that ambiguity, and the fact that each of the 2 aspects (historical + technical) have enough material to fill up a honest page (which might rapidly grow into the order of magnitude considered as "limit of pagesize" for editing and readability reasons), I was tempted to make both, separately. (Finally, the mathematical aspect is not really closely related to the historical aspect.) — [[User:MFH|MFH]]:[[User talk:MFH|Talk]] 13:29, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
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