Archimedes' Method

Author:Elizabeth Lundin

Explore Archimedes' Method for approximating Pi. Change n to change the number of sides on the polygons to gain a closer approximation of Pi. Archimedes went up to a 96-agon.

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Tracing a Surface with Curves
Step-By-Step Rationalization
Tracing Quadrics and Surfaces
Factoring Quadratic Polynomials
Tracing the Hyperboloid of One Sheet

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Volume of a box
powerFunction
Invest3: Do Rectangle Diagonals Have Special Properties? Pt2
Øving Koordinatsystem
Tessellation
Medial Triangle

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Circumcircle or Circumscribed Circle
Boxplot
Conditional Probability
Stochastic Process or Random Process
Unit Circle