Happy Pi Day!

[David Morris]

http://www.wired.com/2013/03/can-you-determine-pi-with-a-pendulum/

you can get a value of pi using a pendulum. Well, you need a few other
things: the period of a pendulum (with a small amplitude) and length L is:

[image: Screenshot 3 9 13 9 34 pm]

Further, I said that the period of a pendulum with a length of 1 meter is 2
seconds. This would mean that pi squared would be g (the gravitational
field in N/kg) – which it is.

On Saturday, March 14, 2015, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> Counting the seconds I think it will reach nine....( although I don't know
> them)
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On Mar 14, 2015, at 7:38 AM, Laura Kelber <kelber at mindspring.com
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > And today it will reach seven decimals:
> >
> > 3/14/15  9:26
> >
> > Laura
> >
> >
> > Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com <javascript:;>> wrote:
> >
> > http://www.piday.org
> >
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi_Day
> > -
> > Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>
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