SOLUTION: What is pi

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Question 465439: What is pi
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The ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is expressed using the Greek lowercase letter pi (). The numerical value is roughly 3.141592653589...; it is irrational and transcendental. Pi is a really interesting number, because it can appear anywhere in math, not just in problems involving circles.

Here is the Wikipedia article on pi:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi