Calculating Pi

Some surprising approaches to calculating Pi

Chris Laffra
The Startup
Published in
7 min readMar 11, 2020

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Calculating Pi using 5 Pizza Pies.

Each year on March 14, we celebrate Pi Day at Uber Amsterdam. This year, we were planning to celebrate Pi Day on Friday and to look at a couple of algorithms using PyAlgoViz. Due to COVID-19, the in-person celebration of Pi-Day got canceled, and instead we did a video call with the whole Amsterdam Tech Team at Uber Amsterdam. We did do a few live runs on one…

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Chris Laffra
The Startup

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