The Most Unusual Ways Pi Shows Up In Mathematics | Can You Explain These?

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►Resources

3Blue1Brown Collision Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

List of Equations Involving Pi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_formulae_involving_%CF%80

Buffon's Needle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szUH1rzwbAw

Stirling's Formula: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/254a-notes-0a-stirlings-formula/

Stirling's Formula Modification (Gosper's Approximation): https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2205128/how-is-gospers-approximation-to-factorial-derived

Riemann Zeta Function: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann_zeta_function

Random Walk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk

Random Walk (Calculating Pi): https://www.wired.com/2017/03/hey-can-find-pi-random-walk-heres/

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