Happy pi day with a post about pi.… Read More Everything you wanted to know about pi but were afraid to ask

Ghost in the Machine A clever way to foil an evil ghost possessing your computer is to ask it compute all the digits of π. Spock did just that in a scene from the classic Star Trek episode Wolf in the Fold. But what exactly is π? It’s a number of course, but not like the counting numbers 1, 2,… Read More Everything you wanted to know about pi but were afraid to ask