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[drivebyluna.livejournal.com]

Is there a word for the concept of Pi (3.14)?

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[voffk.livejournal.com]

Пи

[krl-pgh.livejournal.com]

It's a Greek letter that looks like cursive uppercase Russian "П", and is pronounced as "пи".

[dair-spb.livejournal.com]

This is how Pi looks like: π

:-)

[dvanoltri.livejournal.com]

But capital pi looks just like П :)

[icamel.livejournal.com]

But it has nothing to do with a concept of circle length to diameter ratio.

[mephiztofel.livejournal.com]

It's called число "пи"

[thevile.livejournal.com]

Впервые обозначением этого числа греческой буквой п воспользовался британский математик Джонс (1706), а общепринятым оно стало после работ Эйлера. Это обозначение происходит от начальной буквы греческих слов περιφέρεια — окружность, периферия и περίμετρος — периметр.

The Greek letter π, often spelled out pi in text, was adopted for the number from the Greek word for perimeter "περίμετρος", probably first by William Jones in 1706, and popularized by Leonhard Euler some years later.

http://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B8

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi

[dvanoltri.livejournal.com]

I'm sure poster knows everything he needs about the constant itself:)

[eyeballmassage.livejournal.com]

in english, at least in the US, we usually write pi as a stylized kind of thing (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2e/Pi-symbol.svg/600px-Pi-symbol.svg.png)

in russian, do you just write п as you usually would?

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

Yes, we do.

[oryx_and_crake]

No, we don't. We use lowercase Greek letter "pi" which is very different from lowercase Russian п.

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

I've been mistaken by image from wikipedia.

[oryx_and_crake]

Wikipedia? Do you mean you had no geometry at school?

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

No, I have and pretty much. :)

There's a link to the image above. The image's from wikimedia foundation.

[oryx_and_crake]

Exactly. This is what the letter looks like:

(the picture is taken from the Wikipedia article)

[pigmeich.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I thinked he was asking about that Greek letter, not Cyrillic.

[oryx_and_crake]

Yes, exactly. The way people write it in geometric formulas and such is as on the picture above, and not using the Russian "п" letter.

[icamel.livejournal.com]

Why? AFAIK in schools students are taught to write not russian п, but greek π, which in turn is looking very much alike small capital handwritten п though.

[alon_68]

Yes, we use exactly the same character.
It's not stylized but rather the standard lowercase Greek character.
But if the text is not scientific we will rather write "пи".

[serpent-849.livejournal.com]

it's also used instead of *** or other symbols in swear words starting with пи, like 3,14здец =)