So you have a circle. What is the area of that circle? Surely everyone remembers that the area of a circle is: Where Pi (Ï€) is of course the number and r is the radius of the circle. Where does this ...
Editor's note: A version of this story was published in March 2011. Get ready to roll out some dough, because it's Pi Day. What's that, you ask? Think back to geometry class. Pi represents the ratio ...
Archimedes' method finds an approximation of pi by determining the length of the perimeter of a polygon inscribed within a circle (which is less than the circumference of the circle) and the perimeter ...