How Pi was nearly changed to 3.2 - Numberphile
The State of Indiana nearly passed a law which would have made Pi equal 3.2 - strange but true. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ More Pi videos from Numberphile: http://bit....
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DR. JAMES GRIME: Have you ever heard of the time when theytried to redefine pi, to redefine piso that it was 3.2?BRADY HARAN: I'm about to.DR. JAMES GRIME: Yes, you are.This is absolutely insane.It's a true story, as well.And it's absolutely crazy.So this happened--well, I don't think that long ago.It was 1897.And there was a guy called Edwin Goodwin, this amateurmathematician who thought he had solved one of the unsolvedproblems of mathematics, a problem that goes way back toancient Greece.It was called squaring the circle.The problem is can you find a square that has the same areaas a circle.So this problem goes way, way back.And it's a favorite problem for amateur mathematicians.And this guy thought he had solved the prob...
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DR. JAMES GRIME: Have you ever heard of the time when theytried to redefine pi, to redefine piso that it was 3.2?BRADY HARAN: I'm about to.DR. JAMES GRIME: Yes, you are.This is absolutely insane.It's a true story, as well.And it's absolutely crazy.So this happened--well, I don't think that long ago.It was 1897.And there was a guy called Edwin Goodwin, this amateurmathematician who thought he had solved one of the unsolvedproblems of mathematics, a problem that goes way back toancient Greece.It was called squaring the circle.The problem is can you find a square that has the same areaas a circle.So this problem goes way, way back.And it's a favorite problem for amateur mathematicians.And this guy thought he had solved the prob...
