As long as we’re busy bashing Oxford, the above graphic and note are from the Australian textbook My Maths 8, 2015, published by the esteemed Oxford University Press.
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As long as we’re busy bashing Oxford, the above graphic and note are from the Australian textbook My Maths 8, 2015, published by the esteemed Oxford University Press.
I think the fractions are referring to Archimedes 96 sided polygons . He must have been very patient?
I guess the posww is referring to those non mathematicians who don’t
Yeah, I imagine that’s what they’re thinking. But, what they’re writing is garbage.
I wonder what else Archimedes thought. And what value isn’t between two fractions?
I can tell you what he would have thought if he had seen the above.
I don’t get it. Like even what the point is.
1. I just calculated those two fractions to a few decimals and pi IS between those two values. No?
2. And was the Math 8 having a go at Archimedes or just reporting that he had an estimate with upper/lower bounds? (And were those his bounds?)
P.s. (not related to slagging Oz textbooks, but to history of pi calculating) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlf1ELvRzc