The Most Unusual Ways Pi Shows Up In Mathematics | Can You Explain These?

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Buffon’s Needle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUH1rzwbAw

Stirling’s Formula: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/254a-notes-0a-stirlings-formula/

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Comments

peanut12345 says:

Buffons Needle is Cranky and from "playing with drugs". Why is 1% error is fine?

Yasir Irshad says:

Do it.. the video on e.. do it.

Abdalla Babikir says:

I think for the coin flip example, it's impossible to be at 0 if you flip the coin an odd number of times

Duck Jr. says:

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neuroxik says:

9:06 "The answer is pi. Nah, I'm just kidding" made me laugh as fuck

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Richard Deese says:

I LOVE IT! Pi and e are both wonderfully NATURAL numbers – they're EVERYWHERE in nature! Who wouldn't love that? tavi.

Corne van Zyl says:

Euler please!

Soumyadeep 980 says:

After watching the whole video my brain is telling me

fuck this shit i'm out

35cut says:

2:02
JUST WRITE 1/2
this is exactly why i hate engineers

Smelly Cheesecake says:

How about in Stirlings approximation, try adding 1/Pi instead of 1/3. I haven't tried it but it might get a lot closer, or maybe even exact.

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Dank Memes says:

The integral from negative infinity to infinity of (cos (x^2)/x^2 + 1) dx =pi / e
MIND – BLOWN

Luis Alejandro Rubiano Guerrero says:

Very cool video. I am excited for the video about e

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