I never
understood the popularity of that approximation. 86953/27678 is
more accurate. (*)
Sure, and there ae ever more accurate rational approximations.
You do realize I was being facetious, right? :)
Of course. I was trying to prevent a thread where we get one message
after another givning the rational approximation obtained by adding one
more term to the continued fraction approximation.
I like 355/113 myself.
Yes, it's very easy to remember, and accurate enough for a lot of
practical work. Of course it _is_ an aproximation, anyone who claims it's
exact is plain wrong.
-tony