Reply to post: Re: But are these constants?

Only true boffins will be able to grasp Blighty's new legal definitions of the humble metre and kilogram

ICPurvis47
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Re: But are these constants?

I was stunned to find out recently that Pi can be approximated by dividing 355 by 113, which gives 3.14159292, which is accurate to 7 significant figures. Why was I not told of this shortcut at any point during my 60 odd years in engineering?

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