Pi Day 2024

Posted on Thu 14 March 2024 in Math

Happy Pi Day 2024! Here's the video of my project to have a Raspberry Pi calculate Pi and show the digits on a scrolling LED clock display.

Watch the video here: Scrolling Pi display

I used the Spigot algorithm to generate the digits of Pi and here's more about how Spigot works

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Palindromic Numbers

Posted on Sat 21 March 2020 in Math

A palindromic number is a number that is the same, backwards and forwards, e.g. 12321. It so happens that for almost all numbers, repeatedly adding a number to its reverse eventually produces a palindromic number. For example:

78 + 87 = 165
165 + 561 = 726
726 + 627 = 1353
1353 + 3531 = 4884 …


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