Slide rules
In article ,
Brian Reay wrote:
Steve Walker wrote:
On 07/12/2019 20:08, Bill Wright wrote:
On 07/12/2019 16:23, Andy Bennet wrote:
On 07/12/2019 13:14, ZW wrote:
replying to Bruce, ZW wrote:
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
3.141592653589 etc
My tape measure doesn't go to 64,452 decimal places, so I always use
three and a seventh.
Bill
355/113
SteveW
You can‘t express Pi like that- one integer divided by another integer.
ISTR we used 22/7 in simple calculations at school. At university, my slide
rule had a pi mark.
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