On 11/07/2010 12:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote: > > Klaus-Peter Schrage<kpschrage@xxxxxx> writes: >> You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: >> http://www.correctpi.com/ > > Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow > his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB warning. > One question: does he ever explain why his value gets the wrong answers and the "traditional" one doesn't? Back on the original topic, I suppose, if you want to be weird, you could try the method I did, about 25 years ago: use numeric integration to find the area under the function f(x) = sqrt( 1 - y^2 ) from 0 to 1 then multiply by 4. I did it in FORTRAN on a CP/M machine and it needed all night to come up with an answer to the limits of the machine's precision. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
