On Mar 15, 11:52=A0am, Luke Campbell <lwc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Mar 15, 6:55 am, Jack Tingle <wjtin...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > Yesterday being pi-day (3/14 at approximately 1:59:27), I tried a
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> > exercise. The most commonly used approximations for this nasty little
> > number are 3.1416, 22/7, and 355/113. Since pi is 3.14159... 3.1416 is
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> > pretty good approximation, and only requires you to remember five
> > digits. 22/7 only needs 3 digits, while 355/113 needs a prodigious act
> > of memory on SIX whole digits [shocked muttering from audience].
>
> But for all practical purposes
> =A0 float pi =3D acos(-1.0);
>
> Luke
That's 22 characters, as opposed to six digits. Not very good. You
also had to load a function library.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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