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Topic: Prime numbers and pi
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Milo Gardner

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Re: Prime numbers and pi
Posted: Dec 6, 2012 9:56 AM
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Archimedes said pi was found in the range

(3 + 10/70) > pi > (3 + 10/71)

a simple algebraic- arithmetic estimate,

clearly not a geometric estimate as many have suggested.
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