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One common association of those digits with PI is the handy approximation of 22/7 accurate to three digits, off by just over .0004.

I stress that this is an approximation only! I had to explain about PI being irrational rather than exactly equal to the shortcut approximation to a couple co-workers, explaining some poor behaviors in their rotation function.



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