Kyle Rankin<p>In honor of Pi day here is a video of my vintage Marchant electromechanical calculator approximating Pi using a common approach (355 / 113).</p><p>This type of calculator was popular among physicists working on the Manhattan project, and yes, if you divide by zero it goes into an infinite loop.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.kylerank.in/tags/piday2024" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>piday2024</span></a></p>