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lazarus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-06-10 10:28 AM Original message |
The ultimate home computer sets pi record |
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whistler162 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-06-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oooops..... should someone tell him it is actually 7? |
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pokerfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-06-10 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. What is pi? |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Aug-06-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Politician: Pi is 3 |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-07-10 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
4. 355/113 is plenty close enough for most practical purposes. |
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matt819 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Aug-31-10 12:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. Those Russian brothers in NY are going to be pissed |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 01:30 AM Response to Original message |
6. Pi? Here's an algorith I came across a while back: |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 01:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I think it is probably based on an approximation of pi by regular 2^n-gons |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 02:13 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. THANKS for that! |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 03:35 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. You can do it on your computer with a free program like this: |
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pnorman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 07:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Thanks, I'll give it a try later. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-16-10 08:06 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. It's double-precision arithmetic, whatever double-precision is on your box |
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