I've been involved elsewhere in a discussion about the Egyptians and pi but lets not get into that again.

I was reminded of the following quote which I rather like:

"... the true value of pi is nearer 3.14159265358979323846, but even this is only an approximation. Although knowing pi to 39 decimal places is sufficient to calculate the circumference of the universe accurate to the radius of a hydrogen atom, this has not prevented computer scientists from calculating pi to as many decimal places as possible...

... even if Kanada or the Chudnovsky brothers carried on calculating until their computers sapped all the energy in the universe, they would still not have found the exact value of pi."

(Kanada and the Chudnovsky brothers are mentioned in the text as being engaged in calculating the value of pi to billions of decimal places).

"Fermat's Last Theorem" Simon Singh.

Jon B

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