From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...
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The math behind the My Lai massacre: 128 enemy killed. Three weapons found. Nobody asked.

In 1968, the Army reported 128 enemy killed and three weapons found at My Lai. Nobody asked how those numbers made sense, and ...