Posted by OTM Mike Stone (Idaho, USA) on Monday, February 07, 2005 at 9:59PM :
In Reply to: Ok Who's smart with math? posted by Jonas on Sunday, February 06, 2005 at 6:18PM :
using Ahmes (egyptian scribe) formula 1650 B.C.E.
take the diameter deduct 1/9
then you have a square with the same area as
the circle
so 3.438 - .382 = 3.056 * 4.812 * 6 = 269
not bad for 3,650 year old math
but later math has shown that it is impossible to square a circle
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