INDIAN OLD CURRENCY AND THE VALUE OF π

INDIAN OLD CURRENCY AND THE VALUE OF π

Author: Ashokkumar Gokuldas Heda

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In old currency of India, there was a smallest coin known as Pai, also spelled as Pie, which was 192^nd part of a Rupee. The similar pronunciation, i.e. Pi and Pie made me try to correlate between the value of π and Indian old currency.

In old currency of India, there were some coins as described below-

1 Rupee           =          64 Paisa

8 Anna             =          32 Paisa

4 Anna             =          16 Paisa

2 Anna             =          8 Paisa

1 Anna             =          4 Paisa

½ Anna            =          2 Paisa

¼ Anna            =          1 Paisa

1 Pie                =          1/3 Paisa

Then one can ask, what in the numbers 142857 in Pi have in common with Indian old currency? The answer is: a lot.

To exhibit the correlation between Pi’s digits, take all the numbers of Indain old currency in terms of Pie / Paisa and reduce each one to a single digit, as shown below-

Indian Old Coin	Conversion into Pie / Paisa		Pi
1 Rupee	192 Pie; reduces to 1 + 9 + 2 = 12 & becomes 3, because 1 + 2 equals	3	3
8 Anna	32 Paisa; becomes 5, because 3 + 2 equals	5	1
4 Anna	16 Paisa; becomes 7, because 1 + 6 equals	7	4
2 Anna	8 Paisa	8	2
1 Anna	4 Paisa	4	8
½ Anna	2 Paisa	2	5
¼ Anna	1 Paisa	1	7

The Indian old currency’s final numbers are the same, but in different sequence in comparison to the digits found in the value of Pi.

The numbers 3.142857 in the value of Pi and Indian old currency shown significant correlation.