![]() Don’t believe in the mighty power of Desmos? Good job! Because it’ll then be our duty to beg to differ, and attempt to convince you otherwise. Instead, it is probably better known as an innocent-looking math tool for the scientifically-minded, making applied math ever more palatable and entertaining! As Greek-mythology-inspired as it sounds, Desmos actually has nothing to do with the giant monster responsible for turning Mount Olympus into rubble through the wrath of infernal flames. And it comes with a funky name as well: Desmos. In particular, there’s a certain education startup out there, relentlessly seeking to hijack our Internet browsers and mobile devices into a - should we say - graphing extravaganza. Sure, while programmable calculators in general are still pretty much popular these days, the graphing calculators from the 21 st-century are also coming in waves as we speak - potentially disrupting the market of scientific computing and educational technology. Ok, I still think I have a nice fractional representation of pi.Think you’re fond of of graphing and computing stuffs? Great! Because you might remember this thing called the Texas Instrument TI-83 from the old days. I just realized that maybe my Pi is not accurate enough. If you run this to 10,000 you don't get a better estimate. The graph is dumb, so I am not going to include it. If running it up to n = 1000 is cool, what about n = 10,000? Yeah. Also, it is odd that there is a group sort of evenly spread out between n = 200 and 500. Out of 1000 iterations, the best value was at n = 467 (with an estimate of 355/113). Actually, I removed the first two fraction estimates because they sucked so bad the graph looked weird. I will only record the fractions when it is better than the previous one. You can see out of these 50 fractions, 22/7 is the closest to Pi and not the last one (38/13). This wouldn't be a terrible idea even if the date doesn't actually work out.ĭoing the above gives the following values (this is just for 50 times) Yes, this is not Pi - but it is Pi Day in the USA. What about 22/7? You know, like 22 divided by 7 as an approximation for Pi? This would be in July - a nice month for a holiday.2, what is the difference? However, this is right after New Years Day. What about 3/1 (January 3 rd)? Sure it isn't as recognizable as 3.14, but it is just as good - right? 3 places out of infinity vs.Also, there is no 14 th month to do 3/14. ![]() As Dave ( pointed out: there is no 31 st of April (that would be ). But in other countries, March 14 would be and clearly that is not Pi. This goes from smaller thing to bigger thing and that seems logical.Īnyway, back to Pi Day. Really, I can see where they are coming from. ![]() ![]() Some people (ok, most people) use the dd/mm/yy format (called little endian). However, there is another way to represent the date. Well, at least it is over for those of us that write the date as mm/dd/yy (called middle endian). ![]()
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