Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Sylvia Else Newsgroups: comp.misc,sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: Totally OT: Colliding blocks that compute pi Date: Sun, 4 May 2025 23:41:01 +0800 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net jVx54Anrijk4VVFsdIQmoAAwrOvEK+kKLdluObWEdEO7VjNdUm Cancel-Lock: sha1:9liPqIYp6x5eTlhcBNfX03pxcrU= sha256:VGWjoqZcIK6KJd6XNdrnlE2Gdbc+Pb+I0bvMY1AcJY8= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.15.1 Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 1275 On 04-May-25 11:35 pm, Tom Del Rosso wrote: > Sylvia Else wrote: >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo > > But WHY does it compute pi in base ten? > > Because the right hand mass is increased by a factor of 10^2 each time. If it were increased, say, by a factor of 9^2, then the digits would be of Pi in base 9. Sylvia.