[VA] SRC #009 - Pi Day 2021 Special

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(03-16-2021 06:36 PM)Maximilian Hohmann Wrote:  And regarding Pi and Pi day, my favorite science explainer on Wikipedia (not by coincidence his ph.d thesis is "Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education") just today realeased a video for the mathematically illiterates (like myself) about how Isaac Newton revolutionsnised the way Pi is calculated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMlf1ELvRzc

Thanks for the link! Isaac Newton did this and much more during 1665 and 1666, when students were sent home because of a pandemic. Too good there was no Distance Education back then and his professors left him alone for such a long time.

The wp-34s program in this 10-year old thread is an implementation of Newton’s method to compute \(\pi\):

https://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap...ead=187663

Regards,

Gerson.