Pi hand calculation ramble (Blaugust #1)

So apparently there's a thing about making a blog post every day in August? We're a little unwell, but heck with it, why not.

One of our recurring preoccupations is arithmetic in different bases/radices. (Heck, there's a post from our old Livejournal arguing for base 6 in 2007.) Recently, we rewatched part of a stream vod of ours in which we were calculating the golden ratio using Fibonacci numbers in a bunch of bases, and we felt like we could do it better now than we did then...

...so we've been plotting. And scheming. And refining our strategies. Because we're aiming our sights on π.

( Maths geekery )

In contrast to our Fibonacci experiments, this will have four divisions instead of one. However, it is all still doable, and if we remember to do the equivalent of casting out nines and elevens, we might even get the right answer!