This program will find the area of a circle without pi!
@naraku, it's close to pi/2.
@Ispil, does that have any reason to converge to (a ratioal function of) pi, or did you just write a random way to get 3.1415 ?
@Ispil, does that have any reason to converge to (a ratioal function of) pi, or did you just write a random way to get 3.1415 ?
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Sorry about that, there was an extra square root in there. There should be a total of 9, not 10, with the last being the square root of 2+1. As for why it converges to pi, it is a variation of Viéte's formula, which can be manipulated into an approximation of pi. There, I simply posted a version of Viéte's formual when n (a particular variable in the function) is 8.
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| I'm still surprised no one has mentioned this classic |
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| Um, what language is that |
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| Fixed it: |
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| [random stuff about bizarre C] |
It is C89. If your compiler can't handle it, your compiler is non-standard.
Also, I still seem to have not learned that no one will ever bother to click a link I provide, answering all your questions and more. That code is an update to a famous IOCCC winner.
I'm not bothering to post a link this time. Instead, I'm going to get a mirror and eat some delicious apple pi.
@Duoas the link you provided was to the source file identical to that in your post, it explains nothing.
L B, when did you first join, I estimate : 4 years, 4 days, 4 hours, 4 minutes, 4 seconds ago.
| Austin J said that everyone was reported. Was he just misreading something? |
I'm not sure if this specific thread was affected, but I remember spoonlicker had a brief reporting frenzy on here -- and the admin must've cleared the reports since then.
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