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At around 1900 B.C., Egyptians estimated the value of pi to be 256/81.
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What value of pi did the Egyptians obtain 2000 years before Christ?
22/7 or 3.142857...
What value of π did the Egyptians obtain 2000 years before Christ?
An Egyptian scribe named Ahmes wrote the oldest known text to imply an approximate value for π. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dates from the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period - though Ahmes stated that he copied a Middle Kingdom papyrus (i. e., from before 1650 BCE). In problem 48 the area of a circle was computed by approximating the circle by an octagon. The value of π is never mentioned or computed, however. If the Egyptians knew of π, then the corresponding approximation was 256/81 or 3.16
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What value of pi did the Egyptians obtain 2000 years before Christ?
22/7 or 3.142857...
What value of pi did the egyptians 2000 bc?
The ancient Egyptians are believed to have used 22/7 which is 3.14285714...
Who were the first people to find a value for pi?
The Egyptians in 2000 b.c.
What value of π did the Egyptians obtain 2000 years before Christ?
An Egyptian scribe named Ahmes wrote the oldest known text to imply an approximate value for π. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dates from the Egyptian Second Intermediate Period - though Ahmes stated that he copied a Middle Kingdom papyrus (i. e., from before 1650 BCE). In problem 48 the area of a circle was computed by approximating the circle by an octagon. The value of π is never mentioned or computed, however. If the Egyptians knew of π, then the corresponding approximation was 256/81 or 3.16
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