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by SilasX 1392 days ago
> 256/81 (3.16)

Whoa, trippy coincidence. (16/3)^4 ~= 3.16

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Despite the math typo, (4/3)**4 is a pretty interesting composition of pi, if only because you get such a fundamental constant out of a relatively simple arrangement of low natural numbers.
I must be misunderstanding something, because based upon my understanding (16/3)^4 ~= (5.333)^4 (or 65536/81) ~= 809.
16^4 / 3^4 = 256 / 81

That is interesting. Not as close to pi as the 22/7 that we were taught in middle school but maybe those exponentials were more meaningful to the Egyptians.

16^4 is not 256. 16^2 is 256. 16^4 is 65,536.
Oops, sorry.