Talk:Pi (disambiguation)

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Since the mathematical pi is the best known, surely it should be second on the list, under the letter?

Is there some reason the movie gets "π" but the letter, number, and meson get "pi"? Surely all four should just be wikified in a REAL-LINK|π form? (I don't know about chemists and pi bonds.)

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I put the Greek pi links in historical order. I changed "In chemistry, ..." to "..., in chemistry", since in a two part phrase, the key item should be first. (As opposed to common WP article starts, where "In chemistry, ..." seeks to orient.) The adjective "mathematical" is more readable than the "mathematics and related fields" phrase.--192.35.35.35 16:43, 18 Feb 2005 (UTC)

Contents 1 Moved stuff 2 Greek letter on top 3 Reformatted page to show contents 4 Just checking

[edit] Moved stuff

I'm moving the following here because either the entries lack articles and/or they are uncyclopedic for the purposes of wikipedia (e.g. wikipedia is not a slang dictionary). Note that the first entry, pi as a multiplication operator, is covered in the Pi (letter) article which is already linked to. -- jiy^Talk 17:26, August 16, 2005 (UTC)

• In mathematics, the capital letter Π is occasionally used as a symbol for the product operator, multiplying the terms of a sequence (compare use of Σ for the summation operator).
• pi is typesetting jargon for a random jumble of characters.
• pi is British slang for "preachy" or "goody-goody", from "pious".
• PI is Prussian Instructions (Preußische Instruktionen), a German library cataloguing system used from 1898 until the 1970s.
• PI is an abbreviation for Processing Instruction in SGML and XML.
• PI is Push Initiator in WAP push

[edit] Greek letter on top

Doesn't this contradict the rule that the primary meaning (the mathematical constant, which is at Pi) should always go on top?? Georgia guy 15:55, 22 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Reformatted page to show contents

This page has a large ammount of different articles to link to, I've sorted it to try to help people get to where they want asap. I've left the main pi article link at the top. I know it's normal for disambiguation pages to be a simple list of links, but with 42, I believe this is an exceptionThe18thDoctor 01:46, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Just checking

Isn't Police Investigator also abbreviated as P.I.? Kennard2 02:05, 25 March 2007 (UTC)