Awk was at hand, and with this few lines I found, what I forgot: 22/7, and 355/113 are the most 'famous' estimations for pi. The next - more precise - approximation is 52.163/16.604, which is not that 'nice.'
Here are the lines:
BEGIN{
 x = 3;
 y = 1;
 pi  = 3.1415926535897932384626433832795;
 diff = 1;
 searchfor = pi;
 for(f = 0; f < 100000; f++){
     if(x / y < searchfor){x = x + 1;}else{y = y + 1;}
     diffnew = abs(searchfor - x / y);
     if(diffnew < diff){
           printf ("%d/%d=%10.20f\n",x,y, x/y);
           diff = diffnew;
     }
 }
}
function abs(number){
 if(number < 0){return -number;}else{return number;}
}
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