 | James Wharton - 1847 - 224 str.
...adjacent sides are 33 feet 6 inches, and 24 feet 3 inches, and the included angle 45°? 2. Supposing that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is as 3-1416, or IT to 1 ; it is required to show how the following multipliers are deduced: -3183 to... | |
 | 1857 - 408 str.
...be contained in a globe 190,000,000 of miles in diameter. It was this wonderful man who discovered that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle was between 3ifg and 3}2 to 1. It may be remarked that the word myriad, being the highest numeral employed... | |
 | 1868 - 504 str.
...carried by different computers, and by various methods, much far- • ther than this. The result is that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle has thus far been ascertained to be 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693293751058209749445023078164... | |
 | Edward Sang - 1875 - 150 str.
...is 8800 inches, its diameter is almost exactly 2801 inches; or, omitting the single inch, we may say that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is very nearly as 88 : 28 or as 22 : 7. The student should repeat this calculation very carefully, carrying... | |
 | 1896 - 368 str.
...usually understood : that is, by the use of the rule and compass only. It is well known from the geometry that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is constant. This constant ratio is usually denoted by the Greek letter ?r, and it follows at once that... | |
 | 1899 - 824 str.
...figures. 1. Explain what is meant by a radian and find how many degrees and minutes it containa, assuming that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is 22 to 7. Express in degrees and also in radians the vertical angle of an isosceles triangle in which... | |
 | Royal Society of New South Wales - 1900 - 574 str.
...years later flourished the greatest mathematician of antiquity, Archimedes [287-212 BC], who shewed that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle lies between 3£ and 3|f- The mean of these 3-1418, is sufficiently exact for most purposes. A contemporary,... | |
 | William Ernst Paterson - 1911 - 262 str.
...angle of the triangle whose sides are 5'2 inches, 7'7 inches, and 9'1 inches. SENIOR. 1909. 1. Show that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is an invariable quantity. Find to an inch the diameter of a wheel which makes 400 revolutions in rolling... | |
 | Claude Irwin Palmer, Daniel Pomeroy Taylor - 1915 - 296 str.
...circumference to the diameter of a circle. But this is impossible for it has been proved in higher mathematics that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is transcendental. 506. Historical Note. The people of Babylon and the early Hebrews (I Kings vii, 23)... | |
 | Claude Irwin Palmer, Daniel Pomeroy Taylor - 1918 - 460 str.
...circumference to the diameter of a circle. But this is impossible for it has been proved in higher mathematics that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is transcendental. 506. Historical Note. The people of Babylon and the early Hebrews (I Kings vii, 23)... | |
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... that the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle is correctly expressed by the number 314159 . . . (p. 
