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Old 01-12-2010, 11:01 AM
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PI rules

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Originally Posted by The_Cat View Post
Can add much to the discussion but:

Talking about pi , most of us know about the school boy approximation of 22/7 (very poor accuracy) but what about this for accuracy pi ~ 355/113 . This is easy to remember:

take the first 3 odd numbers (1, 3 and 5) then double up (113355) then put the long division sign half way (113 | 355)

Jerry.
Quite good--accurate to better than 0.0000003
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