[Avodah] previous calculations of pi

Harvey Benton harvw613 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 15 11:27:24 PST 2012


some have complained that the rishonim were not accurate enought when
it came to their description of pi eg, they named it as being3 instead
of 3.14 etc.

however, when one divides 3.14 over 300, what is the resultant error
(and what real differentce does it make??

previous calculations of pi ( i may have entered some numbers incorrectly)
are as follows:

(numbers are from excel.....)
    .14/3 
0.046667 

hmz


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