What I saw on the web on 2025.3.13

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1. That’s why people become monks
   by Joy Williams
   https://www.chinamieville.net/2115-2/
   i feel that
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2. How Pi Almost Wasn’t
   by James Propp
   https://mathenchant.wordpress.com/2025/03/13/how-pi-almost-wasnt/
   including another way in which pi could be worng
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3. We calculated pi with colliding blocks
   by Matt Parker et al
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlUTlbZT4ig
   and it didn't work as well as you might have hoped
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4. There's more to those colliding blocks that compute pi
   by Grant Sanderson et al
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dTyOl1fmDo
   wait, there's more!
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