Sunday, March 14, 2021

Pi Day 3-14-2021



This blog has several posts about pi, including one that used random numbers to estimate pi.

Matt Parker and Steve Mould posted a YouTube video demonstrating how to estimate pi using Avogadro's number (Avogadro's number is used in chemistry and is the number of particles in one mole of a substance).

Matt Parker and Steve Mould use Avogadro's Number to Estimate Pi

For pi day, WIRED posted this video about pi and keeping trains on the track:

https://www.wired.com/story/how-pi-keeps-train-wheels-on-track/

Other pi-related posts in this blog include:

Prime Number Spirals

One-Time Pad Coding

Find Your Birthday in the Digits of Pi

Pi - How Many Digits are Really Needed?


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