Celebrate Pi Day with this fun Python tutorial where we create an animation illustrating the irrational nature of Pi! Watch as we visualize Pi's never-ending decimal expansion and explore the math ...

Irrational numbers are numbers that cannot be expressed as the ratio of two whole numbers. This is opposed to rational numbers, like 2, 7, one-fifth and -13/9, which can be, and are, expressed as the ...

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When my students grow too dependent on their calculators, I ask them to find a number that, when multiplied by itself, gives them 2. Students quickly see that since 1² = 1 and 2² = 4, the answer has ...