Why colliding blocks compute pi

The physics behind one of the most surprising occurrences of pi
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The original paper by Gregory Galperin:
https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galpe...

Adam Brown's paper on the analogy with Grover's Algorithm:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.02207

Here's a lovely interactive built by GitHub user prajwalsouza after watching this video: https://prajwalsouza.github.io/Experi...

Matt Parker's Pi Day video:
   • We calculated pi with colliding blocks  

NY Times blog post about this problem:
https://wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com/20...

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:48 - Recap, the surprise pi
3:58 - How to analyze the blocks
13:30 - The geometry puzzle
18:35 - Small angle approximations
23:30 - The value of pure puzzles

SEV#7:    • Secret Endscreen Vlog #7  

The original version of this explanation (now unlisted):    • Why do colliding blocks compute pi?  

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