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cover of episode Episode 68: Archimedes and his Pi - Repost

Episode 68: Archimedes and his Pi - Repost

2022/8/2
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Math! Science! History!

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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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