The number pi has an evil twin(mathstodon.xyz)
553 points by pkaeding | 200 comments
A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.
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553 points by pkaeding | 200 comments
A Mastodon thread by John Carlos Baez explaining the lemniscate constant ϖ, an analogue of pi tied to the lemniscate curve and its sl and cl functions.
849 points by malshe | 227 comments
Medium member-only article by Keith McNulty explaining how two New Orleans teenagers found a new trigonometric proof of the Pythagorean Theorem.