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Absolutely hilarious way to calculate pi
While perusing Ben Webster's blog (which is a joint venture according to the blog's about page) for the current Carnival of Mathematics articles I noticed a link to this absolutely hilarious article titled How to Calculate Pi by throwing Frozen Hot Dogs. I immediately got the joke as there's a fascinating way to calculate pi by dropping needles randomly on lined paper so I laughed really hard. There's actually some real Math here once you get over how funny the article is. And this article got published in WikiHow. Very cool!
I'm always impressed by the great sense of humor of many Math geeks. Some of these Math blogs are quite entertaining, even if I can't follow half of the Math some of these folks write about.
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December 2nd, 2007 - 08:59
It is a joint venture. I just tend to write more posts than the other bloggers. If you scroll down, you’ll see there are 2 posts by other co-bloggers on the front page (and they have all posted at one point or another, I promise).
December 3rd, 2007 - 06:54
Ben,
Ok.
Great Carnival. See you around the Blogosphere.
Sol