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    Raspberry Pi

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    Analog Inputs for Raspberry Pi Using the MCP3008 Created by Mikey Sklar Guide Contents Guide Contents Overview Connecting the Cobbler to a MCP3008 To follow this tutorial you will need Why we need an ADC Wiring Diagram Necessary Packages Python Script Run It 2 3 4 4 4 5 7 9 12 © Adafruit Industries http://learn.adafruit.com/reading-a-analog-in-and-controlling-audiovolume-with-the-raspberry-pi Page 2 of 12 Overview Teaching the Raspberry Pi how to read analog inputs is easier

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    History of Pi

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    The History of Pi Throughout the history of mathematics‚ one of the most enduring challenges has been the calculation of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and diameter‚ which has come to be known by the Greek letter pi. From ancient Babylonia to the Middle Ages in Europe to the present day of supercomputers‚ mathematicians have been striving to calculate the mysterious number. They have searched for exact fractions‚ formulas‚ and‚ more recently‚ patterns in the long string of numbers

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    History of Pi

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    History of Pi There are many people who have discovered and proved what pi is. As time goes on people discover more and more of the seemingly random numbers. Four of the people who proved pi are the Liu Hui‚ Archimedes of Syracuse‚ James Gregory‚ and the Bible. The first proof I will be talking about is Liu Hui’s. Liu Hui was a Chinese mathematician whose method for proving pi was to find the area of a polygon inscribed in a circle. When the number of sides on the inscribed polygon increased

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    Pi Day

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    Justin Carlton PI DAY 3/14/13 * Definition of pi: Pi is the 16th letter in the Greek alphabet. It is equal to 3.141592 when shortened‚ but never ends. * Archimedes-One of the major contributions Archimedes made to mathematics was his method for approximating the value of pi. It had long been recognized that the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter was constant‚ and a number of approximations had been given up to that point in time. Archimedes was the first person

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    Pi and Plato

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    some things in the world are better off not knowing. The Allegory of the Cave written by Plato and the movie Pi by Darren Aranofsky demonstrate exactly why such goals should not be attainable. In the Allegory of the Cave‚ Plato expresses the idea of different perception of the real reality and the fear of letting go that perceived reality. The prisoners chained in a cave their whole life believe the shadows is what signifies their real world and the ultimate reality whereas one prisoner (the Philosopher)

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    Langston Hughes Allusion

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    An example of an allusion found in Langston Hughes’s poem would be in line five. It says‚ “I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young” (5). This allusion is referring to the Euphrates River that runs through Western Asia. Another example of an allusion would be in line six. Line six says‚ “I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep” (6). The allusion is referring to the Congo River in Central Western Africa. One more example of an allusion found in Hughes’s poem is in

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    Allusions In Geek Love

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    before their time‚ creating a literary allusion. In the novel Geek Love‚ there are many allusions to speak of‚ from Shakespeare’s The Tempest to inspirations from the Jonestown Cults‚ to other Literary Works such as The Things They Carry‚ to The Iliad and even to Frankenstein. However‚ the direct allusions to the stories in The Tempest‚ are the most direct and easy to understand‚ if you have read the play. In the following‚ I will Allude to a few

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    Pi in Mathematics

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    π (sometimes written pi) is a mathematical constant whose value is the ratio of any circle’s circumference to its diameter in the Euclidean plane; this is the same value as the ratio of a circle’s area to the square of its radius. It is approximately equal to 3.14159265 in the usual decimal notation. Many formulae from mathematics‚ science‚ and engineering involve π‚ which makes it one of the most important mathematical constants. π is an irrational number‚ which means that its value cannot be

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    raspberry pi

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    Apache Mysql PHP) on the Raspberry Pi - Linux tutorial from PenguinTutor A website of the Watkiss Online Group. Also see the First Aid Quiz Website. Search Home Learn Linux Learn Electronics Projects News & Reviews Learn Linux :  Raspberry Pi LPI certification Linux Tutorials Creating a LAMP server (web server – Linux Apache Mysql PHP) with the Raspberry Pi Home > Linux tutorials This provides details of how to configure a Raspberry Pi as a webserver. This is similar

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    Allusions In The Crucible

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    In Arthur Miller’s play‚ The Crucible‚ the main protagonists are John Proctor‚ Elizabeth Proctor‚ and Reverend Hale. They had tolerated and however more struggled with the misunderstood references such as witchcraft that had effected their personal lives with dilemmas. Each character had exhibit a certain sin from the beginning and with their decisions made towards the end of the play it had expressed their true virtues. The play’s tragic hero John Proctor was an outspoken and honest man

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