From rockets to cancer research, here’s how the number pi is embedded in our lives

Every year, math nerds and dessert enthusiasts unite to celebrate Pi Day on March 14, a date whose digits represent the first ...

You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...
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Confront Them With the Numbers: This Former Physicist’s Path to Investigative Data Journalism

Anna Behrend is a self-taught data journalist who has found in data-driven reporting and visualization a way to combine her academic background in science with her creative interests.
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Pulse Pattern Construction for Time-Hopping Pseudolites With the Generated Congruence Codes

Abstract: The pulse patterns constructed with existing methods don’t perform well in hit property or in pattern number. Aimed at this problem, a new method to construct pulse patterns for multiple ...