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# Drawing a pie chart

Pie charts are popular for showing proportions. A pie chart's main characteristic is that all items usually sum up to 100 percent. They are displayed as segments of a disc.

As an example, we will use a pie chart to display the relative amount of questions about different TeX distributions.

## How to do it...

We will use the pgf-pie package, which builds on TikZ and is specialized for generating pie charts. Follow these steps:

\documentclass{article}

2. Load the pgf-pie package:
\usepackage{pgf-pie}

3. Begin the document:
\begin{document}

4. Begin a TikZ picture, which will be the container of the pie chart:
\begin{tikzpicture}

5. Draw a pie chart using this command:
 \pie [rotate = 180] {62/\TeX\ Live and Mac\TeX, 32/MiK\TeX\ ...

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