"The Egyptians didn't have a direct equivalent to pi in the way we think of it today. They weren't calculating the exact ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.
However, they did have a method for approximating the area of a circle. The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus, an ancient Egyptian text, describes calculating the area as if it were a square with a side length of 8/9ths the diameter of the circle."
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