What is Pi?
Visualizing π in motion.
One of the harder concepts I grappled with when I was a kid was pi. Where on earth did that number come from? Now, we know the answer to that, but a very good way of visualizing it has surfaced on Wikipedia. In essence, it’s an animation of a circle rolling out once. If you measure how many diameters the roll covers on the ground, you get pi.
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