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by kazinator 455 days ago
Very Eurocentric article. This dude

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zu_Chongzhi

found in the fifth century AD that π lands between 3.1415926 and 3.1415927, using Liu Hui's algorithm on a 12288-gon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Hui%27s_%CF%80_algorithm#L...

He also discovered the 355/113 approximation over a millennium before the Europeans:

"[H]owever milü π = 355/113 could not be found in any Greek, Indian or Arabian manuscripts, not until 1585 Dutch mathematician Adriaan Anthoniszoon obtained this fraction; the Chinese possessed this most extraordinary fraction over a whole millennium earlier than Europe." (First article above quoting scholar Yoshio Mikami)

Also:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liu_Hui%27s_%CF%80_algorithm#S...