Today is March 14. 3.14. Pi Day! Google spreadsheet offers a function that will return the value of pi to 14 decimal points. In a Google spreadsheet template, type = PI() and the output is 3.14159265358979. In Excel the same function = PI() returns the value of pi to 9 decimal points. Continue reading “Happy Pi Day”
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What’s the Volume of a Pyramid?
How many cubic feet of sand can a pyramid hold? Did you know that it is exactly 1/3 of the volume of a rectangular prism with the same height, base, and width as the pyramid? Let’s use spreadsheets to confirm this and calculate the volume of other geometric solids.