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Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by tennysonmach on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:05PM (#10537372)
If you Google 3.141592653589793 then you'll find it cited as π in plenty of places. I wonder what the cause of the discrepancy is?
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Re:Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land (1959) [video] by grapeshot on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:25PM (#10537432)
Looks like it's the result of taking exactly 19 terms of a certain Taylor series expansion for π.
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