Comment Comment by fuzztester >contains a decent approximation of the value of pi at 3.1416.I read this somewhere earlier, in some article about the history of mathematics, maybe Indian, Chinese, or both:Take the number 113355 (easy to remember). Split it down the middle to get 113 and 355. Divide the latter by the former. E.g. in the Python shell:> print (355/113)Result:3.1415929203539825which is a slightly closer approximation to pi than 3.1416. parent fuzztester 2 years ago
I read this somewhere earlier, in some article about the history of mathematics, maybe Indian, Chinese, or both:
Take the number 113355 (easy to remember). Split it down the middle to get 113 and 355. Divide the latter by the former. E.g. in the Python shell:
> print (355/113)
Result:
3.1415929203539825
which is a slightly closer approximation to pi than 3.1416.