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Reasonable Hope (Math) · Thursday · 4 min

How Archimedes Trapped Pi

More than two thousand years ago, Archimedes placed polygons inside and outside a circle to trap pi between reliable upper and lower estimates. His method shows how carefully constructed boundaries can give us meaningful knowledge without eliminating every uncertainty.

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More than two thousand years ago, Archimedes placed polygons inside and outside a circle to trap pi between reliable upper and lower estimates. His method shows how carefully constructed boundaries can give us meaningful knowledge without eliminating every uncertainty.

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