Math Photo: Pi/4 Radians

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One-fourth Pi Radians

While playing around building trains, it occurred to me that one link of curved track was a nice, everyday representation of \frac{\Pi}{4} radians, as each link is one-eighth of a full circle.

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Jennifer Silverman · March 23, 2014 at 10:48 am

Lovely! I may have to go up to the attic before my next ProRadian Protractor presentation. Thanks for the idea.

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Matt Skoss · March 23, 2014 at 2:09 pm

This photo is a great starting point to make an animation to illustrate the pi/4 turn.

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