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What's the value of pi?????


Let's have a look how Aryabhata tried to find the value of pi...............

Given below is a slokha from Aryabhatiyam.................


Add four to one hundred by eight then add sixty to thousand then divide by twenty thousand result is approximately circumference of a circle of diameter of twenty thousand.

Aryabhata called it an approximate ( asanna ) value = circumference/diameter = 62832/20000=3.1416





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