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You’ve always been told that pi is 3.14. This is true, but this number is based on how we measure distance. Find out what happens to pi when we change the way we measure distance.
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Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards breaks down what happens to pi, and circles as well, when we change the metric we’re using.
Sources:
[Pi] is the Minimum Value of Pi by Charles Adler and James Tanton
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Planar Isospectral Domains
https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/drum/drum.pdf
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