(Note: this post is an extension on the calculating pi with python post from a couple of years back. Also here’s another way to inefficiently calculate pi with Buffon’s Needles.) We’re currently working with Power series and Taylor series in … Continue reading
Buffon’s Needle is a famous way to (slowly) estimate . Here’s a processing.org program to calculate (to keep the math-hipster hatred of -day at a critical point and concave up). Link to live simulation and code. All variables are easy to … Continue reading
A gift from a visiting college student (the pi memorizer)! Wow.
Intro to Computer programming worked at calculating digits of pi today. The actual algorithms aren’t too bad, but getting more than the standard number of digits from a double is a bit trickier. Here’s a program that calculates pi using: Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula … Continue reading