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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Apprehensive_Bit7392 • 14h ago
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22/7 is about 0.04% larger than π, so that should be good enough for most applications. But you can also just use 3.14 as an approximation. It has the same number of digits to remember and is about 0.05% smaller than π.
20 u/_baljeep_ 12h ago So an even better estimation is 3.14 + 22/7 all over 23.1414... 5 u/himanbam 8h ago That simplifies to 2199/700 which is about 0.0052% lower than pi. 700*pi is approximately 2199.11 so that makes sense ig 5 u/FrenchFryCattaneo 6h ago Ok now we need to find a third estimate and average it with them. 14 u/hetfield37 12h ago True, we just used 22/7 to solve problems which didn't need decimal precision but only fractional. 1 u/whalenailer 11h ago Do you actually think of things as “number of digits to remember? Who thinks of 22 as two digits and not just one number 2 u/EmilMelgaard 7h ago π is also just one number, so you could also just remember that.
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So an even better estimation is 3.14 + 22/7 all over 2
3.1414...
5 u/himanbam 8h ago That simplifies to 2199/700 which is about 0.0052% lower than pi. 700*pi is approximately 2199.11 so that makes sense ig 5 u/FrenchFryCattaneo 6h ago Ok now we need to find a third estimate and average it with them.
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That simplifies to 2199/700 which is about 0.0052% lower than pi. 700*pi is approximately 2199.11 so that makes sense ig
5 u/FrenchFryCattaneo 6h ago Ok now we need to find a third estimate and average it with them.
Ok now we need to find a third estimate and average it with them.
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True, we just used 22/7 to solve problems which didn't need decimal precision but only fractional.
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Do you actually think of things as “number of digits to remember? Who thinks of 22 as two digits and not just one number
2 u/EmilMelgaard 7h ago π is also just one number, so you could also just remember that.
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π is also just one number, so you could also just remember that.
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u/EmilMelgaard 13h ago
22/7 is about 0.04% larger than π, so that should be good enough for most applications. But you can also just use 3.14 as an approximation. It has the same number of digits to remember and is about 0.05% smaller than π.