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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 115 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I'm allways astonished by how many function seemingly have nothing to do with circles and yet somehow a pi managed to snuck itself in

[–] [email protected] 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Usually when that happens there's a way to tie it back to circles, but it's not always easy to find

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago

there’s a way to tie it back to circles

Not necessarily circles, but conic sections. When you take a series of a fixed exponent over a variable x, and graph it, that graph is a parabola.

A parabola is a slice through a cone. Tada, pi appears.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago

You could say you just go round and round hunting for it, but no matter how hard you try you just can't corner it.

Well, you could.

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