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March 14, 2010
The Mystery of 355/113
http://davidbau.com/archives/2010/03/14/the_mystery_of_355113.html
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Milu was the name given to 355/113 by Zu Chingzhi in about 480AD.
It was not "rediscovered" until; ~=3D 900 years later in 1585 by Dutch
mathematican Adriaan Anthoniszoom

Zu's derivation of the 355/113 ratio is the earliest known.
Zu's other mathematical achievements are well worth reading about. See.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil%C3%BC

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Wolfram
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiApproximations.html

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https://www.math.hmc.edu/funfacts/ffiles/10004.5.shtml

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Collection of approximations of Pi
Including historical
http://numbers.computation.free.fr/Constants/Pi/piApprox.html

They do not mention Old Testament Hebrew. The famed Bronze Bath passage in
1 Kings 7:23 appears to set Pi =3D 3 BUT the underlying gamatria in the tex=
t
gives allows you to extract Pi from stated measurements as 3.1415094. This
arguably *could *be a fluke of the precision of the measurements.

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