Why pi?
Total watch time
2h 4m
at 1× speed · exactly 2 hours, 4 minutes, 12 seconds at 1×
| 1× | 2h 4m 12s |
|---|---|
| 1.25× | 1h 39m 22s |
| 1.5× | 1h 22m 48s |
| 1.75× | 1h 10m 58s |
| 2× | 1h 2m 6s |
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| 1 |
 Why colliding blocks compute pi
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26:07 | 2025-03-13 | |
| 2 |
 Why is pi here? And why is it squared? A geometric answer to the Basel problem
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17:08 | 2018-03-02 | |
| 3 |
 Pi hiding in prime regularities
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29:43 | 2017-05-19 | |
| 4 |
 The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle
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5:13 | 2019-01-13 | |
| 5 |
 How colliding blocks act like a beam of light...to compute pi.
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14:41 | 2019-02-03 | |
| 6 |
 How pi was almost 6.283185...
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5:53 | 2018-03-14 | |
| 7 |
 The Wallis product for pi, proved geometrically
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25:27 | 2018-04-20 |
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