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How do you calculate Pi?
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edw519
on Sept 2, 2009
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yannis
on Sept 2, 2009
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A much better approach is to use a spigot algorithm
http://home.att.net/~srschmitt/script_pi_spigot.html
RiderOfGiraffes
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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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