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With that interpretation 14/3 is 4.(6) or using 3/14 just 0.2(142857) and both are way off. But if we stop taking the date more or less as it but allow (arbitra
by danbruc 13y ago
With that interpretation 14/3 is 4.(6) or using 3/14 just 0.2(142857) and both are way off. But if we stop taking the date more or less as it but allow (arbitrary) computations on the components, we probably can get even closer than 22/7.
- pedrocr 13y agoMy comment was mostly in jest but I was indeed comparing two different interpretations 3/14 to mean 3.14 and 22/7 to mean the fraction. If anything the fraction interpretation seems more natural to me because of the forward slash. I'm curious how we could get closer than 22/7. With two numbers and a single operation (the slash) what would you do to get closer? 22/7 seems hard to beat.
- martin_b 13y agohttp://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiContinuedFraction.html http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiContinuedFraction.html
- ColinWright 13y agoA phenomenally accurate fraction for pi is 355/113. It's hard to see how to get that to be interpreted as a date, though.