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Pi Approximation Day
07-24-2019, 12:35 AM
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(07-22-2019 07:48 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  I got the simplest formula:

3

Sorry, I'm an engineer, that's enough precision most of the time...

“Pi is about 22/7”, says the engineer in this math jokes page. Roman engineers would say it was close to 25/8. The builders of King Solomon’s Temple knew it was a bit great than 3, I think, but apparently the reporters believed it was exactly 3.

I’ve read 3.1416 is good enough in Mechanical Engineering. Other types of engineering might use other aproximate values for pi, though. I remember 377 was commonly used as an approximation for 2\(\pi\times\)60 in EE texbooks, for convenience.
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