Episode 68: Archimedes and his Pi - Repost

Math Science History with Gabrielle Birchak

English - August 02, 2022 12:00 - 12 minutes - 30 MB - ★★★★★ - 49 ratings
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In June 2022, Emma Haruka Iwao and her team at Google computed pi to 100 trillion digits! But this number 3.1415, first determined by Archimedes, only had three digits. Archimedes left a huge impression on the world of math!

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