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This interactive feature illustrates Archimedes' basic approach to calculating pi. It finds an approximation by determining the length of the perimeter of a polygon inscribed within a circle and ...
Archimedes, through some further clever geometry, figured out how to estimate the perimeters for polygons with twice as many sides. He went from a 6-sided polygon, to a 12-sided polygon, to a 24 ...
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