Cumusky's Pi

by jtauber

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last posted May 3, 2014, 9:13 p.m.

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I remember one day in Mr Cumusky's maths class, when I was 13, thinking about the fact that tan 90º goes to infinity.

I wondered what tan 89º was. My calculator gave me:

57.28996163...

I was intrigued at how close that was to 180 / π.

created May 3, 2014, 8:34 p.m.

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