How colliding blocks act like a beam of light...to compute pi.
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 Published On Feb 3, 2019

The third and final part of the block collision sequence.
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Error correction: I wrote the answer as floor(pi/theta), when really it should be ceiling(pi/theta) - 1 t account for values of theta perfectly dividing pi. For example, the case of equal masses gives an angle of pi/4, and 3 total clacks.

This beautiful result, and the solution shown here, are due to Gregory Galperin:
https://www.maths.tcd.ie/~lebed/Galpe...

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

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

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Music by Vincent Rubinetti.
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Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld

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