Calculate Pi With a Dartboard

John Clark Craig
3 min readNov 7, 2020

You can try this at home, but do it the easy way

You have to throw a lot of darts to estimate pi
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Imagine a special, square dartboard, say exactly 2 meters by 2 meters in size, with a giant bullseye circle inscribed within its borders.

A square dartboard with inscribed circular area

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John Clark Craig

Author, inventor, entrepreneur — passionate about alternate energy, technology, and how Python programming can help you hack your life.