Pages

Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros

Friday, March 15, 2019

The beautifully simple method Archimedes used to find the first digits of pi

[Archimedes]Wikimedia Commons * March 14 is Pi Day in the US, as the date matches the first three digits of the famous number. * On Pi Day 2015, Google announced that a researcher had uncovered the first 31 trillion digits of pi, using a cloud-based computer algorithm. * Ancient mathematicians like the Greek Archimedes used clever geometry tricks to come up with earlier estimates of π. Happy Pi Day! It's March 14, or in American notation, 3/14, matching the first three digits of π.  One of the fundamental constants of mathematics, π, is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. SEE THE REST OF THE STORY AT BUSINESS INSIDERSEE ALSO: * The Senate votes to terminate Trump's national emergency in a stunning rebuke, and the president will have to use his first veto to get his border wall * A sleep expert explains what happens to your body and brain if you don't get enough sleep * 13 apps for your iPhone that are better than the ones Apple made SEE ALSO: THE PI DAY GOOGLE DOODLE WAS MADE BY THE INVENTOR OF THE CRONUT — HERE'S WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT THE DAY


READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.businessinsider.com