 Milü

Milü (; "close ratio"), also known as Zulü (Zu's ratio), is the name given to an approximation to (pi) found by Chinese mathematician and astronomer, Zǔ Chōngzhī (祖沖之), born 429 AD.Using Liu Hui's algorithm (which is based on the areas of regular polygons approximating a circle), Zu famously computed to be between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927 and gave two rational approximations of , and , naming them respectively Yuelü 约率 (approximate ratio) and Milü.