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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/donateinfi You’ve always been told that pi is 3.14. This is true, but this number is based on how we measure distance. Find out what happens to pi when we change the way we measure distance. Tweet at us! @pbsinfinite Facebook: facebook.com/pbsinfinite series Email us! pbsinfiniteseries [at] gmail [dot] com Previous Episode - Can We Hear Shapes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&t=520s Mathematician Kelsey Houston-Edwards breaks down what happens to pi, and circles as well, when we change the metric we’re using. Sources: [Pi] is the Minimum Value of Pi by Charles Adler and James Tanton Link Unavailable Thanks Kelly Delp! Planar Isospectral Domains https://math.dartmouth.edu/~doyle/docs/drum/drum.pdf Written and Hosted by Kelsey Houston-Edwards Produced by Rusty Ward Graphics by Ray Lux Made by Kornhaber Brown (www.kornhaberbrown.com) Comments answered by Kelsey: Chris Morong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&lc=z12mezr4nw2vzrgya04cftkiovv0wreyam00k Calvin Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&lc=z12awz2jmzn5gdmt423rdznw5rzqi3om1 Taylor Kinser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&lc=z133g5jhgqnnwlbry04ccbmjdozuc10qjkk0k Spencer Key https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&lc=z13oxx1gqrvlhhevo23pglwwgvfdyr0ql04 Thiemo Krebsbach https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkJZbyrfx-Q&lc=z120zx0ybomvcd1vp23tc1koun3cib2gp04