We all knowpi , at least the first three digits of it . If for some reasonableness you block them though , there ’s good newsworthiness . All you ask to get that knowledge back issome atomic number 13 hydrofoil , ingenuity , and a scattergun .
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depend pi with a shotgun is far from efficient , but what it lacks in practicality it make up for in awesomeness . And the shotgun - toting duad Vincent Dumoulin and Félix Thouin at the Université de Montréal in Canadahave proven it , though unfortunately without video .
The premise is simple : Take a sheet of aluminum foil and draw a one-fourth circle on it , an arch get to from corner to corner . Then fire a 28 - inch barrel Mossberg 500 ticker - activity shotgun at it from about 60 animal foot away . Then do it again . Do it 200 clock time . After the carnage , you just count the figure of holes inside the quarter lap and equate it to the number of golf hole outdoors . Multiply by 4 and you have private eye . Or at least something close . Dumoulin and Touin got 3.131 , a 0.33 percent deviation from the literal affair .
As fun as it may be , the shotgun part is just flair . This form of calculation is calledthe Monte Carlo method , and can be much more tediously put to death by just sprinkling some metric grain of moxie on the earth . Dumoulin and Thouin ’s exculpation for the scattergun seems to be that in a post - apocolyptic humanity , 200 shotgun shield would be more readily available ( and solely wasteable ? ) than a fistful of sand . The rest of their scientific discipline seems fairly solid , but that bit seems like kiiiiiind of a stretch . [ The Physics arXiv Blog ]
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