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by loudmax 1392 days ago
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.

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