Coding Challenge #139: Calculating Digits of Pi with Collisions

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Happy Pi Day! In this video I attempt to compute the digits of Pi using the “collisions” method, thanks to 3Blue1Brown for the idea!

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🔗 Playing Pool with Pi: https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galperin.%20Playing%20pool%20with%20pi.pdf
🔗 Elastic collision on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic_collision
🔗 Euler Method on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler_method

🎥 The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle by 3Blue1Brown: https://youtu.be/HEfHFsfGXjs
🎥 How colliding blocks act like a beam of light…to compute pi by 3Blue1Brown: https://youtu.be/brU5yLm9DZM
🎥 Pi and Bouncing Balls by Numberphile: https://youtu.be/abv4Fz7oNr0
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