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Three alternate methods of obtaining the ancient Egyptian formula for the area of a circle (English)
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To determine the area of a circle, mathematicians in ancient Egypt used the square of 8/9 of its diameter. This gave the approximation of \(\pi\) equal 3,1605. The reviewed paper is devoted to the question: how could the Egyptian formula have been found. After a description of earlier attempts to answer this question the author presents three new conjectures: first two of them are suggested by an examination of African craft technique, the third one by playing with circular objects.
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area of a circle
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craft technique
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