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Pi with pies

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Numberphile did something crazy - attempted to calculate Pi using real Pies. Watch and see how close they got to the real figure of 3.14159265359... Visit Numberphile

Even with more of the circular pies, why would it have been impossible to cover the area of the circle with them and calculate Pi using the area of a circle formula Area = Pi * r^2?

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