Scientific American presents Math Dude by Quick & Dirty Tips. Scientific American and Quick & Dirty Tips are both Macmillan companies. Throughout history, circles have symbolized many things: unity, ...

Every year, the celebration of Pi Day (March 14 is 3.14) grows more ambitious. Math teachers love to dream up unique classroom activities to celebrate Pi for it endless opportunity to calculate ...

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 ...

Everybody knows the value of pi is 3.14…er, something, but how many people know where the ratio came from? Actually, the ratio came from nature—it’s the ratio between the circumference of a circle and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Consider a finite set of points, located on the circumference of a circle. Several tests have been proposed of the hypothesis that the points ...

Time is a flat circle, Matthew McConaughey tells us, neglecting to explain how then we could measure time's circumference to derive its diameter, using pi. (Maybe it's best not to take the sentiment ...