What’s on the homework vs. on the exam 😠😠😠 Time spent: ~50 minutes. #math #fyp #foryou #approximation #uchicago #tokyoghoul

Your method vs. the method the teacher wants you to use 🙀 Approximating 1+1. Time spent: ~55 minutes. #math #fyp #foryou #approximation #2 #uchicago

The antiderivative of 1/(x³+a³) using complex analysis. Time spent: ~20 minutes. #math #fyp #foryou #integral #calculus #uchicago

In class vs on the exam… Approximating 986-7. Time spent: ~40 minutes. #math #fyp #foryou #approximation #uchicago

Happy Pi Day! Here’s an approximation of π rounded up to the 11th decimal place using the method Newton used. Time spent: ~π hours (~190 minutes). #math #fyp #foryou #approximation #pi #piday #uchicago While I used the first 14 terms, Newton, in 1666, used the first 22 terms to obtain an approximation of π to 14 decimal places. Notably, Newton wrote, “I am ashamed to tell you to how many figures I carried these computations, having no other business at the time.” The computations did in fact take much longer than I thought they would…