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July 10, 2012 6:20 AM
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27 the Favourite Number - Numberphile

Mathematician Katie Steckles in why she likes 27 and why it makes a special appearance in Pi.
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June 13, 2012 3:54 AM
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A Random Walk with Pi

A Random Walk with Pi | Science News | Scoop.it

Of course, the number of digits in π is infinite, but over the years, as computers have become more powerful, we know many more of them than ever before. But it’s one thing to say that I can download trillions of digits of π and another to make some sort of sense out of all of these digits. Into this steps a team of researchers from Australia, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and Simon Fraser University with some elegant visualizations of π. In a recent paper, they used a classic method of visualizing large strings of numbers: the random walk.


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