value of pi and 22/7

[Aage Andersen (REMOVE)]

"peter"
Kee Nethery > 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.
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3 is the best integer approximation to pi. So the bibel is right.

Aage