Paralogy, Pivoting, Pursuing: Ways to Calculate pi
Paralogy, Pivoting, Pursuing: Ways to Calculate pi, a talk by Alan Stevens CMath FIMA
Abstract
That most ubiquitous number, pi, the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is irrational, with a decimal expansion known to over 30 trillion places. There are many ways to calculate finite approximations to pi; we will consider four of the somewhat stranger ones in this talk, involving needles, beams, blocks and fractals. We will stop well short of 30 trillion places!
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