 | Anthony Nesbit - Measurement - 1859 - 494 pages
....141592653589793238462643383279502884 nearly, which la true to 36 places of decimals. This was thought so extraordinary a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone, in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. Since the invention of fluxions, by the illustrious Sir Isaac Newton, the squaring of the circle has... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literature - 1860 - 538 pages
...deeimals, and was effeeted by the continual biseetion of an arc of a circle, a method so extremely troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him...his tombstone in St. Peter's churchyard, at Leyden. But since the invention of fluxions, and the summation of infinite series, several methods have been... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...troublesome aud laborious that it must have cost him incredible pains. It is said to have been thought BO curious a performance that the numbers were cut on...his tombstone in St. Peter's churchyard, at Leyden. But since the invention of fluxions, and the summation of infinite series, several methods have been... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Anthologies - 1875 - 868 pages
...decimals, and was effected by the continual bisection of an arc of a circle, a method so extremely troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him...his tombstone in St. Peter's churchyard, at Leyden. But since the invention of fluxions, and the summation of infinite series, several methods have been... | |
 | Charles Haynes Haswell - Measurement - 1892 - 334 pages
...decimals, and was effected by the continual bisection of an arc of a circle, a method so extremely troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him...that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter.s Church-yard at Lcyden. This last number has since been confirmed and extended to double the... | |
 | Catalogs, Booksellers' - 1918 - 334 pages
...of 7Г is therefore often named Ludolph's number. His performance was considered so extraordinary, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's church-yard at Leyden.'— Prof. Cajori. 3853 ELECTRICIAN (The) : a WEEKLY JOURNAL of THEORETICAL and APPLIED ELECTRICITY, and... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1893 - 476 pages
...of TT is therefore often named " Ludolph's number." His performance was considered so extraordinary, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's church-yard, at Leyden. Romanus was the one who propounded for solution that equation of the forty-fifth degree solved by Vieta.... | |
 | Florian Cajori - Mathematics - 1896 - 324 pages
...places. The latter spent years in this computation, and his performance was considered so extraordinary that the numbers were cut on his tombstone in St. Peter's churchyard at Leyden. The tombstone is lost, but a description of it is extant. After him, the value of w is often called... | |
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Ans. 20.3718. troublesome and laborious that it must have cost him incredible pains. It is said to have been thought so curious a performance, that the numbers were cut on his tomb-stone in St. Peter's Church-yard, at Leyden. 
