You Can Approximate Pi by Dropping Needles on the Floor

In this simulation, 66 of the 100 needles crossed a line (you can count ’em). Using this number, we get a value of pi at 3.0303—which is not 3.14—but it's not terrible for just 100 needles. With ...

Cracking the code: How a 'prediction machine' is resurrecting the Singapore Stone

Several years ago, my linguistic research team and I began developing a computational tool we call "Read-y Grammarian." Our ...
Scientific American

How to find pi in randomness all around you

Celebrate Pi Day and read all about how this number pops up across math and science on our special Pi Day page. Grab something circular, like a cup, measure the distance around the circle, and divide ...
Analytics Insight

Top Skills Required to Become a Big Data Analytics Professional

Skills in Python, SQL, Hadoop, and Spark help with collecting, managing, and analyzing large volumes of data. Using visualization tool ...
IEEE

Real Time Object Recognition Using OpenCV and Numpy in Python

Abstract: Object recognition is the process of recognizing objects based on their characteristics like color, shape, and with the particular occurrence of the object in digital videos and as well as ...
GitHub

ROOT I/O in pure Python and Numpy.

uproot (originally μproot, for "micro-Python ROOT") is a reader and a writer of the ROOT file format using only Python and Numpy. Unlike the standard C++ ROOT implementation, uproot is only an I/O ...