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Jeff Shaumeyer
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social
Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. Living the Suburban Dream with my husband near Washington, DC.
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No Pi TIL: " When two cylinders of radius r meet at right angles, the volume of their intersection is 16r^3/3 — again, no sign of π. " [The "again" refers to the surprising expression for the white area in the illustration, as a function of radius a."] #TIL#Math
A Pi Diet - Futility Closet
Students beginning with the compass learn to draw this rosette, sometimes called the Flower of Life. If the arcs and the circle have the same radius, a, then the area of one petal is and the unshaded ...
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Jeff Shaumeyer
@jnshaumeyer.bsky.social
Quondam physicist (PhD: experimental physics), interlocutor at "Read Science!", author, musician, cookbook collector, crocheter of doilies, and partisan of the Oxford comma. Living the Suburban Dream with my husband near Washington, DC.
90 followers89 following441 posts