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That's not going to get you very far if you're looking for precision.



There's always 355/113. It's roughly approximate to 6.6 digits† and strangely it's been easier for me to remember than 22/7.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2018/05/22/best-approximation...


I like these kinds of things, but a part of me has always wondered why people don't want to just memorize it to six digits at that point. I mean, how long does it really take you to memorize 3.1415926?

Or you could do what I always did, much to the annoyance of my high-school and college physics teachers, and just write down all my answers in terms of pi and never bother reducing it, since I would always argue that I can keep it exact that way :)




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