Historical rankings of presidents should exclude recent presidents. Passions are raw & context missing.
But the sitting president disagrees. Donald Trump recently posted a presidential tier-ranking (himself #1).
So we at YouGov knew what we had to poll: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/do-america...
![The first recorded use of the symbol π in circle geometry is in Oughtred's Clavis Mathematicae (1648),[88][89] where the Greek letters π and δ were combined into the fraction
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{\displaystyle {\tfrac {\pi }{\delta }}} for denoting the ratios semiperimeter to semidiameter and perimeter to diameter, that is, what is presently denoted as π.[1][90][91][92] (Before then, mathematicians sometimes used letters such as c or p instead.[89]) Barrow likewise used the same notation,[93] while Gregory instead used
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{\textstyle {\frac {\pi }{\rho }}} to represent 6.28... .[94][91]
The earliest known use of the Greek letter π alone to represent the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter was by Welsh mathematician William Jones in his 1706 work Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos; or, a New Introduction to the Mathematics.[68][95] The Greek letter appears on p. 243 in the phrase "
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{\textstyle {\tfrac {1}{2}}} Periphery (π)", calculated for a circle with radius one. However, Jones writes that his equations for π are from the "ready pen of the truly ingenious Mr. John Machin", leading to speculation that Machin may have employed the Greek letter before Jones.[89] Jones' notation was not immediately adopted by other mathematicians, with the fraction notation still being used as late as 1767.[90][96]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3pbwguskoq5efzi67w3npq2z/bafkreick7jdubhg45msycqnzl25cojmhth4wc56bgjdybzupukilzqire4)
![That which appears to me to be wanting in America is not a General, or General officers and troops, but a naval superiority on the Lakes. Till that superiority is acquired, it is impossible, according to my notion, to maintain an army in such a situation as to keep the enemy out of the whole frontier, much less to make any conquest from the enemy… The question is whether we can acquire this naval superiority on the Lakes. If we can’t, I shall do you but little good in America; and I shall go there only to prove the truth of [the] defence, and to sign a peace which might as well be signed now. There will always, however, remain this advantage [to my going], that the confidence which I have acquired will reconcile both the army and the people in England to terms they would not now approve.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3pbwguskoq5efzi67w3npq2z/bafkreicgbobe34bekwk5odbhosroit7mvgu2jxgk4s4cldkoea2n4fgu5m)
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