The story of Pi Take any circle, measure its circumference and its diameter. The ratio of these two numbers is a mathematical constant we call pi. while this definition is simple pi has been studied for thousands of years and History of our understanding not just of the value of pi. But also, what it means forms a history of all of mathematics it takes us from the Middle East to Europe to China to India and even America. It's a history, which involves revolutions murder and the infinite. Math is as old as civilization older even. There's evidence of counting going back thirty thousand years and two of the very earliest civilizations the ancient Egyptians and Babylonians both investigated pi around 4000 years ago the Babylonians estimated PI to be 3 and 1/8. Remember that the first few digits of pi are 3.1415926. There are more, that means that the Babylonian estimate of Pi is accurate to 1% of its true value. Which is kind of astonishing when you remember that thi...
Introduction In 1987 ,the World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization consisting of all the members of the UN designed the 40th Anniversary of WHO, April 7, 1988 as World No Tobacco Day with various objective in consideration including ; educating the people around the globe about the hazardous and detrimental effects of Tobacco consumption , encouraging the governments of its member countries to make and execute policies to counter death and complications, and tackle the dangerous effects of Tobacco Consumption. To encourage people to quit smoking at least for 24 hours and make smokers believe they can actually do this. Numerous campaigns around the world aimed to educate people, especially below 25 years of age as they are most likely to get tobacco addiction. This year the WHO has announced to celebrate the World No Tobacco Day on May 31. It has various themes every year .The theme of this year was ''Commit To Quit'' ,that is, to commit to quite tobacco ...