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How do you calculate Pi? (pcplus.co.uk)
1 point by edw519 on Sept 2, 2009 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


A much better approach is to use a spigot algorithm

http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_pi_spigot.html


Correction: Welsh mathematician William Jones first used "pi" to refer to this particular number in 1706, not Euler. Before then it was called the Ludolphian number.




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