Liu Hsin
Liu Hsin
fl. 6 b.c.-a.d.23
Chinese scholar and astronomer credited as the first to use decimal fractions. Liu Hsin is also known for a treatise on the calendar and for his calculation of π at 3.1547. About five centuries later another Chinese mathematician, Tsu Ch'ung-chih (Zu Chongzhi; 429-500), established the formula of 355/113, which is very close to the number—3.141592 followed by an infinite number of digits—accepted today.
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