Happy Wait, What? Wednesday! This week: How to Calculate Pi by Throwing Frozen Hot Dogs🌭 Throwing a pie in someone’s face is good. Throwing food to discover pi is better. Believe it or not, of all the countless ways to approximate the most prolific irrational number in the universe, there are none quite as interesting or as surprisingly satisfying as throwing perfectly good food around your kitchen. The best part is…it really works! 😏 Come back next week for more Wait, What? Wednesday content!

Happy Pi Day! Martin Woodward shows us how to calculate π with distributed computing, a dart board and a Raspberry Pi cluster. Want to learn how to calculate π in your favorite language this weekend? Check out https://github.com/topics/calculate-pi | GitHub

Newton’s Pi Approximation Method (extended)