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    Zu Chongzhi (Chinese: 祖沖之; 429–500 AD), courtesy name Wenyuan (Chinese: 文遠), was a Chinese astronomer, inventor, mathematician, politician, and writer...
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    Intellectuals of the period include the mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi (429–500), and astronomer Tao Hongjing. After the collapse of a unified...
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    Cavalieri's principle (category Zu Chongzhi)
    work The Method of Mechanical Theorems. In the 5th century AD, Zu Chongzhi and his son Zu Gengzhi established a similar method to find a sphere's volume...
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    {\displaystyle 3.1415926<\pi <3.1415927} . That was the famous Zu Chongzhi π inequality. Zu Chongzhi then used the interpolation formula by He Chengtian (何承天...
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    Milü (category Zu Chongzhi)
    known as Zulü (Zu's ratio), is the name given to an approximation to π (pi) found by Chinese mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi in the 5th century...
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    over a whole millennium earlier than Europe". Along with his son, Zu Geng, Zu Chongzhi applied the Cavalieri's principle to find an accurate solution for...
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    that this is due to the later (5th-century) Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi. Zu Chongzhi is known to have computed π to be between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927...
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    using a method similar to that of Archimedes, and in the fifth century Zu Chongzhi found π ≈ 355 / 113 ≈ 3.141593 {\displaystyle \pi \approx 355/113\approx...
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  • an excellent approximation to π, attributed to Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi, who named it Milü. This approximation is better than any other rational...
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  • form a geometric series with a factor of 4. The Chinese mathematician Zu Chongzhi, around 480 AD, calculated that 3.1415926 < π < 3.1415927 {\displaystyle...
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  • Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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  • ZUC stream cipher (category Zu Chongzhi)
    specifications for confidentiality and integrity . It is named after Zu Chongzhi, the fifth-century Chinese mathematician. It uses a 16-stage linear feedback...
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    Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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    created in 488 AD by the medieval Chinese mathematician and engineer Zu Chongzhi which was inspected by Emperor Wu of Southern Qi (r. 482–493 AD). The...
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  • invigorated Chinese mathematics, astronomy, and science (e.g. Liu Hui, Zu Chongzhi, Shen Kuo, Yang Hui, Zhu Shijie). This tradition receded after the Yuan...
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  • courtesy name was Jingshuo (景爍). He was the son of the famous mathematician Zu Chongzhi. He is known principally for deriving and proving the formula for the...
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    Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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    used in the 5th century by Chinese father-and-son mathematicians Zu Chongzhi and Zu Geng to find the volume of a sphere. In the Middle East, Hasan Ibn...
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  • Chinese Calendar, Dàmíng origin lunisolar Chinese 510 China Created by Zu Chongzhi, most accurate calendar in the world at its invention Japanese calendar...
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    in China. Zu Ti (祖逖; 266–321), celebrated Eastern Jin general Zu Yue (祖約; died 330), Eastern Jin general, younger brother of Zu Ti Zu Chongzhi (429–500)...
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  • Zhitui (531–591) Yu Huan (fl. 3rd century) Yang Xiong (53 BC–18) Zu Chongzhi (429–500) Zu Geng (fl. 5th century) Zhong Yao (151–230) Zhong Hui (225–264)...
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    contributed to the development of the calendar include Gan De, Shi Shen, and Zu Chongzhi Early technological developments aiding in calendar development include...
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  • re-invented by many after Ma Jun, including the astronomer and mathematician Zu Chongzhi (429–500). In the later medieval dynastic periods, Ma Jun's south-pointing...
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  • Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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    invention is attributed to the ancient Chinese astronomer and mathematician Zu Chongzhi. References made to the boat were made recalling various tests on the...
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    places by Ptolemy, AD 150), Chinese mathematics (7 decimal places by Zu Chongzhi, AD 480) or Indian mathematics (11 decimal places by Madhava of Kerala...
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  • Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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    king and religious figure Dauí Tenga Uma, king of Connacht (Ireland) Zu Chongzhi, Chinese mathematician (b. 429) Gregory of Tours, History, 2.32 Peter...
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  • who has worked with Schiller (band) Milü, an approximation for pi by Zu Chongzhi Milu (mythology), the ruler of Lua-o-Milu, the underworld Père David's...
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  • Approximations Madhava's correction term Memorization People Archimedes Liu Hui Zu Chongzhi Aryabhata Madhava Jamshīd al-Kāshī Ludolph van Ceulen François Viète...
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