> Jammer Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> > To be honest (something
> > times 8/9ths times itself) is more
> challenging
> > that something times 3.16 UNLESS you have no
> > decimal system at all, let alone a 10+ digit
> one.

Clive Wrote:
> I'm curious...where did you get the 3.16 from?
>
> Problem is Jammer, you must try to discover the
> importance of 3.16, so we’ll do what the AE
> did...
>
> 3+1/6 added 3+1/6 times is equal to:
>
> 3+1/6 + 3+1/6 + 3+1/6 + 3/6 + 1/36 = 10+1/36 =
> (10.028 decimal)
>
> Square root of 10 is approximately 3.16...nothing
> to do with the number pi.

I have to ask, Clive: have you studied the Egyptian Mathematical Papyri

Your response to Jammer's interesting point about 8/9ths suggests, repeat suggests, to me that you haven't.
In case you're wondering, yes I have and am still doing so - it's not an easy subject to get to grips with.

MJ