Just a short addendum to the previous Pi Day post — I was numerically verifying that the area under the curve of the basic Gaussian function was the square root of π. Which, I asserted, is pretty interesting since we all learn at some point that π is defined using circles, and there’s no circle in this plot:
Pi Stuff Quick Update
Pi Stuff Quick Update
Pi Stuff Quick Update
Just a short addendum to the previous Pi Day post — I was numerically verifying that the area under the curve of the basic Gaussian function was the square root of π. Which, I asserted, is pretty interesting since we all learn at some point that π is defined using circles, and there’s no circle in this plot: