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The chinese used a polygon to approximate pi. how many sides did the polygon have?

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Answer:

96 sides

Explanation:

Liu Hui used the approximation 3. 14 which he obtained from taking n = 5 n = 5 n=5, in other words using a regular polygon of 96 sides.

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