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Re: Calculating Pi [message #53331 is a reply to message #53253]

Mon, 02 April 2007 15:04

JD Smith
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Registered: December 1999

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On Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:07:05 -0700, Braedley wrote:

> Does anyone have code that can calculate pi to an arbitrary
> precision? This is purely an academic endeavour.
>
> Actually that's a lie. This is just so that I can show others up.

I say invest in an industrial-sized box of toothpicks and lock
yourself in the tiled-floor bathroom:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffon's_needle

JD

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