On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 02:10 -0700, peter wrote: > On Mar 17, 5:22 pm, Kee Nethery <k...@kagi.com> wrote: > > My favorite approximation is: 355/113 (visualize 113355 split into two 113 > > 355 and then do the division). The first 6 decimal places are the same. > > > > 3.141592920353982 = 355/113 > > vs > > 3.1415926535897931 > > > > Kee Nethery > > Or (more for fun than any practical application) try (2143/22)^(1/4) = > 3.14159265268. > > Other approximations I have seen are root(10) and 3.142. This last > was especially popular at school, which for me was sufficiently long > ago to have used four figure log tables. > > The Old Testament (1 Kings 7,23) says ... "And he made a molten sea, > ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and > his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it > round about. ". So pi=3. End Of. > > > > > > > > The Bible uses integers due to memory constraints.
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