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Baking the best pie (Posted on 2012-11-02)

Find a p/q fraction(fractions?)that gives more exact digits of pi(3.1415926535..etc) than the number of digits of p and q combined.

Feel free to comment on "pi" approximations.

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355/113 = 710/226 = 3.1415929203539823008849557522124, which begins with the same seven digits of pi. The number of digits of p and q combined for the two fractions is six.

Posted by Dej Mar on 2012-11-02 11:14:42

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