What are some interesting approximations of pi?

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we know a couple of approximate values of $\pi$ mostly $\frac{22}{7}$ and $\frac{355}{133}$ but one I found (from the net )interesting was sum of 2 surds $\sqrt{2} + \sqrt{3}$.if anyone is aware of other of interesting observation kindly let me know.
 
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Not an approximation but a mnemonic: "May I have a large container of coffee". The number of letters in each word: 3.1415926.
 
There is a collection of weird and wonderful approximations for pi here. My favourite is the approximation $\frac{355}{113}$, which gives the first six decimal digits of $\pi$ correctly, even though the numerator and denominator of the fraction have only three digits. The reason for that is that the following term in the continued fraction expansion of $\pi$ is the large number 292.