Playing pool with π (the number π from a billiard point of view)

Volume 8 (2003)
Number 4
Pages 375–394
G Galperin

Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, Illinois, United States of America

Abstract
Counting collisions in a simple dynamical system with two billiard balls can be used to estimate π to any accuracy.

DOI 10.1070/RD2003v008n04ABEH000252
Citation  G Galperin, "Playing pool with π (the number π from a billiard point of view)", REGUL CHAOTIC DYN, 2003, 8 (4), 375–394
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