Comment on What’s your favorite random fact that most people don’t know?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 month agoI always learned 22/7 = 3.142
Also close enough for most situations that don’t need extreme accuracy
Comment on What’s your favorite random fact that most people don’t know?
rockSlayer@lemmy.world 1 month agoI always learned 22/7 = 3.142
Also close enough for most situations that don’t need extreme accuracy
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
True that, and 22/7 is the first approximation I learned around 8th grade. But I had already learned π to 50 decimal places in 4th grade…
3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
So by 10th grade I was studying computer programming, on my own, not a school class. Anyways, I found myself fascinated by mathematical algorithms, and ended up (amongst other things) writing a decimal to fraction converter.
When I chucked π through it, it gave me 355/113