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advocated by Zu Geng
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…advocated his father’s calendar (the Daming calendar) and finally succeeded in getting it officially adopted in 510. His astronomical observations with gnomons allowed him to measure the angular distance between Polaris and the celestial north pole. Although none of his complete mathematical writings is extant, some scholars suggest that the…
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creation by Zu Chongzhi
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…and engineer who created the Daming calendar and found several close approximations for π.
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