How close was Aryabhataās value of pi to the modern value?
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In his treatise Aryabhatiya, the Indian mathematician Aryabhata used the fraction 62,832/20,000 to represent pi, which results in a value of 3.1416.12
This approximation is remarkably close to the modern value of pi, which is approximately 3.14159.12