It is no surprise to most of us that the venerated mathematical constant pi is usually related to circles. After all, it is the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter. This then begs the question: what is pi doing inside a normal distribution?
Related Posts
100,000 years and counting: how do we tell future generations about highly radioactive nuclear waste repositories?
Äspö Hard Rock Laboratory in Sweden, where KBS-3 repository technologies have been tested. Anna Storm, Author provided Thomas…
A “Periodic Videos” Primer on the 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Prof. Martyn Poliakoff, of Periodic Videos fame, explains in succinct detail the studies of chemists Benjamin List and…
Dark matter: our new experiment aims to turn the ghostly substance into actual light
Galaxy cluster, left, with ring of dark matter visible, right. NASA Andrea Gallo Rosso, Stockholm University A ghost…
The Number 37.
When asked to pick a random number between 1 and 100, people tend to select the number 37…