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Life of Pi (ฯ€): Calculating its Value

Condensing thousands of years of mathematical progress into a few lines of JavaScript!

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Hello there!

Recently, there were many headlines celebrating how weโ€™ve managed to calculate pi to the 100 trillionth digit:

No, your eyes arenโ€™t playing tricks on you. Oneโ€ฆhundred...trillionโ€ฆdigits. Thatโ€™s a lot of digits, if I do say so myself! All of this got me asking a more fundamental question. How would we calculate pi in the first place? Answering โ€ฆ

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