The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1645: Pi
Engines of Our Ingenuity

The Engines of Our Ingenuity 1645: Pi

C1AdvancedOctober 23, 20263 min
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Episode: 1645 Figuring out the value of Pi. Today, let's talk about π -- and not the kind you eat.

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Today let's talk about pie and not the kind you eat.

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This programming is sponsored by St. Luke's Health, is becoming Common Spirit. While our name is changing, the care you know isn't. Expanding our collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine, we're bringing innovative expert health care closer to you.

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Learn more at commonspirit.org slash stlukeshealth. This is the Engines of our Ingenuity, made possible by the friends of KUHF Houston. Today let's talk about pie and not the kind you eat. The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run,

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and the people whose ingenuity created them. Once upon a time it was common sport for school children to compete over who knew the most digits of the mathematical constant, pi. That's the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter. interest in patients usually ran out at 3.14159256. But finding out what those

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