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The page is timing out for me, but is it the inverse problem of the time when Steve Mould/Matt Parker measured the unknown quantity π, but already assuming a si
by nick238 2y ago
The page is timing out for me, but is it the inverse problem of the time when Steve Mould/Matt Parker measured the unknown quantity π, but already assuming a size of the molecules? Presumably Lord Rayleigh already had a at least a good order-of-magnitude approximation of pi...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgCgzjlWO4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmgCgzjlWO4
- thirdhaf 2y agoBy 1870 pi was known to several hundred decimal digits, for something like this calculation where you have other large sources of error Archimedes approximation from 2 millennia earlier would probably be fine. (<1% error) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_computation_of_%CF%80 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_computation_of...
- jjk166 2y agoNote that pi to 40 digits is sufficient to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to subatomic precision.