Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ludolphian number

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: lu-dol-phi-an num-ber
IPA

26

Scrabble Score

16

Letters

5

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of pi, particularly the 35-decimal approximation discovered by Ludolph van Ceulen

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Pi... came to be called the Ludolphian number, after Ludolph van Ceulen, a German mathematician who approximated it to thirty-five decimal places... a calculation that took Ludolph most of his life to accomplish, and gave him such satisfaction that he had the digits engraved on his tombstone... the stone vanished, possibly to be turned into a sidewalk slab. Somewhere in Leiden, people may be walking over Ludolph's digits."

Etymology

From Ludolph van Ceulen, a German mathematician who improved on previous approximations of pi.

Usage

Uncountable

Synonyms

pi particularly the 35-decimal approximation discovered by Ludolph van Ceulen

Questions

What does ludolphian number mean?: Synonym of pi, particularly the 35-decimal approximation discovered by Ludolph van Ceulen
Where does ludolphian number come from?: From Ludolph van Ceulen, a German mathematician who improved on previous approximations of pi.

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