A Fun Trick For Calculating Pi With Toothpicks

Mar 14, 2014

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Happy Pi Day! Science Friday has a fun discussion of Babylonian and Egyptian scholars originally calculated pi, and a neat way to calculate pi using toothpicks, a formula and some old fashioned geometrical probability.

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