Newsgroups: sci.math
From: hoey@aic.nrl.navy.mil (Dan Hoey)
Date: 09 Mar 1995 23:28:46 GMT
Subject: Re: Pi

kova...@mcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca (Zdislav V. Kovarik) writes about 22/7:

> (1) It's a very good approximation for the size of its denominator,
>     though. You can verify that to get a better approximation, you
>     have to increase the denominator to 99 (the fraction being 311/99).
>     A fraction is understood to have an integer numerator and a positive
>     integer denominator.

I think you overlooked 179/57, 201/64, 223/71, 245/78, 267/85, and
289/92.

Dan
Hoey@AIC.NRL.Navy.Mil