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But he just gave you another example of just that. So that feature simply isn't unique.
by Nomentatus 4y ago
But he just gave you another example of just that. So that feature simply isn't unique.
- tshaddox 4y agoWhat other example has a similarly low denominator but gives as good or better accuracy than 355/133? I’m under the impression that there aren’t any such examples.
- Nomentatus 4y agoHe gave "355/113-1/3748629 has you memorize 17 digits to get pi to 16 digits." This is a compression problem, a little more breakage here or there is to be expected. If e and every other irrational number showed similar breakage, then I might get interested.
- alanbernstein 4y ago22/7 and 355/113 are both special in that the approximation error, relative to the denominator side, is unusually low. Pi is special in that it has even one such small-denominator approximation.