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[โ€“] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Took me longer then I'd like to admit to get the qt3.14

[โ€“] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

qt(333/106) and qt(355/113) are closer approximations anyway, with 4 and 6 decimal digits of precision, respectively.

There's also 22/7, which is slightly more precise than 3.14 alone, but if you ask me, the first two nines which appear in pi lend themselves to a nice rhythm in English that are easily worked into a sing-sing mnemonic that keeps up until the "79" after the 12th decimal, when that falls apart. As a result, I've only memorized the first half of my rhyme:

3.14159

2653589

7932384

Sorry to say I don't know more

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