Milü (nonfiction)

Milü approximation of pi.

Milü (Chinese: 密率; pinyin: mì lǜ; "close ratio"), also known as Zulü (Zu's ratio), is an approximation of π (pi) found by Chinese mathematician and astronomer, Zǔ Chōngzhī (祖沖之).

Using Liu Hui's algorithm (which is based on the areas of regular polygons approximating a circle), Zu famously computed π to be between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927 and gave two rational approximations of π, 22/7 and 355/113, naming them respectively Yuelü 约率 (approximate ratio) and Milü.

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Nonfiction cross-reference

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External links:

• Milü @ Wikipedia