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#141

Calculating Digits of Pi with Mandelbrot Set

21 Mar 2019

Happy belated Pi Day once more! Here I attempt to approximate Pi using a special location in the Mandelbrot set. The programming environment is Processing (Java).

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#140

Leibniz Formula for Pi

18 Mar 2019

In this coding challenge, I use the Leibniz formula (aka infinite series) to approximate the digits of Pi and graph the convergence.

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#139

Calculating Digits of Pi with Collisions

14 Mar 2019

Happy Pi Day! In this video, I attempt to compute the digits of Pi using the “collisions” method, thanks to 3Blue1Brown for the idea!

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#126.2

Happy Pi Continued

14 Mar 2018

Pi Day continues!

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