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"Autymn D. C." wrote:

> Read my comments at the end. :)
>
> http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/print/32679
> Feb 1, 2008
> Constant failure
> Have we defined our fundamental constants with maximum efficiency?
> Robert P Crease invites your comments
>
> In Proposition 3 of On the Measurement of the Circle, Archimedes
> asserts, based on calculations involving regular polygons
> circumscribed around and inscribed in a circle, that "the ratio of the
> circumference of any circle to its diameter is less than 3 1/7 but
> greater than 3 10/71". He thereby strongly reinforced, if he did not
> actually create, the tradition of considering that ratio, two
> millennia later referred to as ð, to be fundamental.
>

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