Krishna Chaitanya Venkata

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The unknown, and forever unknowable, value of π is trapped in a numerical vise, squeezed between two numbers that look almost identical except that the former has a denominator of 71 and the latter of 70. That latter result, 3 + 10/70, reduces to 22/7, the famous approximation to π that all students still learn today and that some unfortunately mistake for π itself.
Infinite Powers: The Story of Calculus - The Language of the Universe
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