👉 In classical Greek mathematics, a piaculum is a unit of measure for the circumference of a circle. It was originally defined as the perimeter of a square, but it has since been adopted by mathematicians to represent the length of a line segment on a sphere. Piaculum units are derived from the Latin "pi" (π), which means "one hundredth," and "ciuma" (circumference) in Greek. Pi is commonly used as an approximation for π,