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To: Swordmaker

There’s a video on YT that explains how Pi can be calculated by anyone with an Excel spreadsheet. It’s called Pi Hiding in Prime Regularity.

Something like 1+1/1+1/2-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/11-1/13 etc. Alternative signs, and divisors that are incremental primes. This converges on Pi, so Pi is an expression of prime series. YouTube has some mind blowing number theory videos.


76 posted on 04/25/2019 5:19:50 PM PDT by cicero2k
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To: cicero2k

Or, if you were a pre-Excel math nerd, you might memorize a good chunk of it:

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510...


80 posted on 04/25/2019 5:56:23 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: cicero2k; YogicCowboy; 21twelve

My favorite pi approximator (for use with dollar store calculators with no Pi key) is 355/113, it was developed in medieval China I think, read about it in, hmm, L. Sprague de Camp?

sidebar:

http://turner.faculty.swau.edu/mathematics/materialslibrary/pi/pirat.html


97 posted on 04/25/2019 10:38:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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