Oct 21, 2016· Rectification and quadrature of the circle have thus been, since the time of Archimedes at least, practically identical problems. ... (Biot, Journ. asiatique, June 1841), and probably also the Greeks. Among the ancient Egyptians, as would appear from a calculation in the Rhind papyrus, the number (4 / 3) 4, i.e. 3.1605, was at one time in use.
