Using colliding block to calculate Pi

Two sliding blocks, 1 kg and 100 kg, counting elastic collisions

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEfHFsfGXjs

A light block bouncing between a wall and a much heavier block, with perfectly elastic collisions, clicks out digits of pi.

If the heavy block is 100 to the n kilograms, the collision count matches the first n+1 digits of pi.

Wednesday October 7th 2020