Happy Twosday! and a Surprising Pi trick

In Ben Sparks’ video he shows a very interesting trick. On a decimal angle calculator run:

sin(1/5555)

If your calculator has more than the standard Ubuntu calculator’s digits of accuracy you could add even more repeating 5’s. The answer is approximately PI with extra zeros…

0.000003142

Since today is Twosday (2-22-2022 in any date format), here is a similar Tuesday math trick for the Python console:

from math import sin
sin(22/700000.0)

It is also .0003142… or approximately Pi!

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