pi的词源

英文词源

pi (n.)

Greek letter, from Hebrew, literally "little mouth." As the name of the mathematical constant, from 1841 in English, used in Latin 1748 by Swiss mathematician Leonhart Euler (1707-1783), as an abbreviation of Greek periphereia "periphery." For the meaning "printer's term for mixed type," see pie (3).

中文词源

pi：圆周率

来自希腊字母pi.现词义缩写自periphery,圆周，周长。

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