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Pi Day 2025

SM - π Day 2025

Supported by K-12 Outreach Office in the Bagley College of Engineering, MSU

  1. The younger children calculated  π using 

    1. Buffon's needle approach with 94 tries -- π = 3.836734694

    2. Counting the number of grid points in a circle:

      1. For radius 6 --- we counted 108 grid points. giving an approximation of π = 3.
        But we should have actually seen 113 points in the circle. 

      2. For radius 11. For the radius of 6, we saw 529 - 148 = 381 points, giving us an approximation of π = 3.148760.

  2. The elder children were calculating π using the Madhava Formula.
    We came upto the approximation of π = 3.0702560 

  3. More information is available on the document here.

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