For those who just want a more accurate Pi

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:17 am

A curious web page:
http://3.141592653589793238462643383279 ... 44592.com/

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:35 am

Now we're just waiting for the doubles....

rsts · Post by **rsts** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 11:36 am

Did you count them?

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 12:11 pm

Post by **Fred** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:22 pm

Excellent

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:32 pm

http://www.solidz.com/pi/pi-32m.txt.bz2 <- 32 million decimal places.

Post by **Dare2** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 3:34 pm

Blimey!

Just the shot for those 3D calcs.

Joakim Christiansen · Post by **Joakim Christiansen** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 4:46 pm

Just updated my #PI constant, thank you!

RichardL · Post by **RichardL** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:00 pm

One of those silly things that I remember from school days; over half a century ago!

Sir I have a rhyme excelling in mystic force and magic spelling
Celestial sprites elucidate all my own striving can't relate

Count the letters in each word. PI to 20 decimal places. I've not checked it so I might have forgotten a word...

Slightly more useful...
For an approximation to PI many people use 22/7 which is OK for estimating.
Try this instead:

Write down the first three odd numbers, writing each number twice: 113355
Split the numbers into two: 113 355
Divide the larger number by the smaller: 355/113
Not a bad approximation; about three parts in 10 million

djes · Post by **djes** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 2:13 pm

I can't find an old program that was calculating pi by drawing and substracting a circle in a square. Very fun, in a few lines of code!

Trond · Post by **Trond** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:46 pm

I p r e f e r p I (reads the same forwards and backwards)

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:39 pm

djes wrote:I can't find an old program that was calculating pi by drawing and substracting a circle in a square. Very fun, in a few lines of code!

Might be this ? :
viewtopic.php?t=8530

djes · Post by **djes** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:28 pm

Psychophanta wrote:
djes wrote:I can't find an old program that was calculating pi by drawing and substracting a circle in a square. Very fun, in a few lines of code!
Might be this ? :
viewtopic.php?t=8530

Mmm? Which one? There isn't anything graphic?!

Psychophanta · Post by **Psychophanta** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:36 pm

djes wrote:Mmm? Which one? There isn't anything graphic?!

Opps, no graphic there, but the second code posted solves lots of Pi decimal places.