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Pi is the Mandarin pinyin romanization of the Chinese surname written in Chinese character. It is romanized P'i in Wade–Giles, and Pei in Cantonese. Pi is listed 85th in the Song dynasty classic text Hundred Family Surnames. According to a 2008 study, it was not among the 300 most common surnames in China. However a 2013 study found that it was the 279th most common name, being shared by 229,000 people or 0.017% of the population, with the province with the most people being Hunan.
“There is a close and beautiful connection between the transformation theory for elliptic integrals and the very rapid approximation of pi. This connection was first made explicit by Ramanujan in his 1914 paper " Modular Equations and Approximations to π " ....”
“We all know that π = 3.14159 and little kids can sometimes give it out to hundreds of decimal places. But the stock market is not like that. There's a range of reasonableness ...”
“Something's going on. It has to do with that number. There's an answer in that number.”
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