value of pi and 22/7

[Westley Martínez]

On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 02:10 -0700, peter wrote:
> On Mar 17, 5:22 pm, Kee Nethery <k... at 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
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> Or (more for fun than any practical application) try (2143/22)^(1/4) =
> 3.14159265268.
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> 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.
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> 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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The Bible uses integers due to memory constraints.