HOME HISTORY OF PI History of Pi Overview Egypt - The Rhind Papyrus Biblical - King Solomon's Temple Babylonia & Pi Ancient Greece - Archimedes & Pi Ancient China & Pi Hindu Mathematics & Pi Leibniz & Pi Isacc Newton and Pi Euler and Pi Ramanujan and Pi Ferguson & The Desktop Calculator Eniac - The First General Purpose Computer & Pi The Computer & Pi The Future DIGITS The Pi-O-Matic: Millions of Digits of Pi PARTY The Pi Day Party & Giant Pi Drop ACTIVITIES Buffon's Needle Buffon's Needle Interactive Demonstration Find Yourself in Pi Find Your Name, Birthday, or any text string in Pi The World Federation of Pi Pi Links               Pi History - D. F. Ferguson, the Destop Calculator, & Pi The Illustrated History of Pi   D.F. Ferguson, the Desktop Calculator, and Pi       The desktop calculator, although a relatively primitive instrument by today's standards, was a technology tour-de-force in its day.       In 1947, D. F. Ferguson, working with a destop calcuator, was able to calculate 808 digits of pi.       This was subsequently extended by others using new technology ... the electronic digial computer ... next                   History of Pi - D F Ferguson, The Desktop Calculator, and Pi - Illustrated History of Pi www.NationalPiDay.org National Pi Day