The first technique due to Archimedes of Syracuse (287--212 B.C.) is, recursively, to calculate the length of circumscribed and inscribed regular -gons about a circle of diameter 1. Call these quantities and . respectively. Then , and, as Gauss's teacher Pfaff discovered in 1800,
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