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  Principle of Archimedes' method of approximating π. This is hardly the principle, Archimedes did not go from pentagon to hexagon to octagon: he started

the oldest numerical approximation in mathematical history. Archimedes himself calculated pi using polygons with up to 96 vertices and got his famous result:

DescriptionArchimedes pi.svg Bahasa Indonesia: Pi perkiraan Ini bukan cara Archimedes mendekati Pi, dia tidak beralih dari segi lima biasa ke segi enam

} ( a = 1 , 0 ≤ θ ≤ 10 π ) {\displaystyle (a=1,0{\leq }{\theta }{\leq }10\pi )}   This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike

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