Sujet : Re: Repeated digits in Pi -- the Feynman point
De : qnivq.ragjvfgyr (at) *nospam* ogvagrearg.pbz (David Entwistle)
Groupes : rec.puzzlesDate : 28. Jun 2025, 11:08:00
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On Thu, 26 Jun 2025 19:50:14 -0000 (UTC), Richard Tobin wrote:
A substantial proportion of the population are capable of learning the
necessary maths and writing a program to determine which is correct. A
much smaller proportion are sufficiently motivated to do so.
I've put together a short program to calculate the proportion of an
arbitrary grid of (x, y) points that lie within a given distance of the
origin and thereby calculate pi. It surely isn't efficient but seems
intuitive to me to do it that way and so easy enough to do. Before it runs
into overflow-errors, it comes up with:
3.141592653589766 < pi < 3.1415926575897664
It'll be interesting to see on the various methods suggested in "pi
Unleashed".
-- David Entwistle