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Did anybody know Pi well enough in 1592 to celebrate Pi day?

François Viète computed $\pi$ to nine decimal places in 1573. He was also intimately aware of the Gregorian calendar, though as a denouncer rather than a supporter of the calculations used to obtain i …
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