In this episode
The story of pi for kids: why the distance around any circle is always a little more than three times the distance across, and how Archimedes of Syracuse pinned the number down around 250 BCE.
• How Archimedes trapped pi between shapes with up to 96 straight sides
• Why the digits of pi go on forever without repeating
• Where pi turns up, from bike wheels and coins to ripples on a pond and the orbits of planets
• Quiz questions to answer along the way
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