It's just down to human transcription errors thoughthe lost original of the bible contains the exact true value of pi.
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Sun 16 Aug 2009, 3:35,
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Yeah, they just said three so they could cut a few hundred million pagesPaper was pretty valuable back then
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Sun 16 Aug 2009, 3:39,
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