Ok, pi is probably a bit over the head of your average 5 year old. I know the definition of pi is circumference / diameter, but is that really how we get all the digits of pi? We just get a circle, measure it and calculate? Or is there some other formula or something that we use to calculate the however many known digits of pi there are?
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Any formula that contains pi (this is a lot of formulas) can be rewritten into a definition of pi by making pi the subject.
You may not like this way of getting pi, but it is technically a way of getting pi.
You’d normally use one of the series in top comment, but these eventually make your computer sad.
Or you look it up. Most computers just look it up.
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