There are a growing number of claims on the Internet that the value of Pi as 3.14159… is wrong, and that its true value is 3.1446…, which is 4 divided by the square root of the golden ratio, i.e., 4/√φ. As I've been researching the golden ratio since the 1990s, I first heard about this years ago but found the proofs difficult to engage with, and the claim unlikely. It was … [Read more...]