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THE issue of the Comptes rendus of the Paris Academy of Sciences for March 25 last contains a paper by M. de Pulligny on a simple geometrical representation of the approximations to the numerical value of 77 given by Archimedes and Metius. Other approximations can be represented in the same way.
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BALL, W. Construction for An Approximate Quadrature of the Circle . Nature 101, 234 (1918). https://doi.org/10.1038/101234b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/101234b0