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PieSquared
on Sept 18, 2008
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Freakishly close
You can use continued fractions to get as close as you want to pi with a fraction (and it gets closer much faster than the decimal approximation, too!) Continued fractions are worth taking a look at if you've never seen them, they're pretty cool.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continued_fractions
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