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Find Pi Like Archimedes: Sides Inside Outside Pi Guess

This document shows the results of calculating pi to increasing levels of precision by approximating the circumference of polygons with more sides inscribed in and circumscribed around a circle. It records the number of sides, the calculated inside and outside circumferences, the resulting pi guess, accuracy percentage compared to the true value of pi, and notes. With just 16,384 sides, the approximation achieves 99.999999694% accuracy, converging on the true value of pi as the number of sides increases towards infinity.

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Find Pi Like Archimedes: Sides Inside Outside Pi Guess

This document shows the results of calculating pi to increasing levels of precision by approximating the circumference of polygons with more sides inscribed in and circumscribed around a circle. It records the number of sides, the calculated inside and outside circumferences, the resulting pi guess, accuracy percentage compared to the true value of pi, and notes. With just 16,384 sides, the approximation achieves 99.999999694% accuracy, converging on the true value of pi as the number of sides increases towards infinity.

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Find pi like Archimedes

Sides
4
8
16
32
64
128
256
512
1024
2048
4096
8192
16384
32768
65536
131072
262144
524288
1048576

Inside
2.8284271247
3.0614674589
3.1214451523
3.1365484905
3.140331157
3.1412772509
3.1415138011
3.1415729404
3.1415877253
3.1415914215
3.1415923456
3.1415925766
3.1415926343
3.1415926488
3.1415926524
3.1415926533
3.1415926535
3.1415926536
3.1415926536

From: betterexplained.com

Outside
4
3.313708499
3.1825978781
3.1517249074
3.1441183852
3.1422236299
3.1417503692
3.1416320807
3.1416025103
3.1415951177
3.1415932696
3.1415928076
3.1415926921
3.1415926632
3.141592656
3.1415926542
3.1415926537
3.1415926536
3.1415926536

Pi guess
3.4142135624
3.187587979
3.1520215152
3.144136699
3.1422247711
3.1417504404
3.1416320852
3.1416025105
3.1415951178
3.1415932696
3.1415928076
3.1415926921
3.1415926632
3.141592656
3.1415926542
3.1415926537
3.1415926536
3.1415926536
3.1415926536
3.1415929204

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% accuracy
91%
98.535923322%
99.668039026%
99.919020520%
99.979879075%
99.994977489%
99.998744854%
99.999686244%
99.999921563%
99.999980391%
99.999995098%
99.999998774%
99.999999694%
99.999999923%
99.999999981%
99.999999995%
99.999999999%
100.000000000%
100.000000000%
99.999991509%

Notes

99.9% already!

5 nines!

As accurate as Excel
A million sides? That's crazy talk.
355/133, our favorite fraction

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