With the number 3.1418, Archimedes was able to calculate the circumference of a circle, Britannica states. It wasn’t until 1706 the Pi (π) symbol was created by British mathematician William Jones.

This is not surprising, given the utility of calculating the circumference or area of a circle, which pi enables. Even ancient scholars developed geometric approaches to calculate this value.

Simply put, squaring the circle is the impossible task of finding the area of a circle by finding the area of a square around it. Goodwin claimed that pi was 3.2 instead of a continuous number.