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Happy Pi Day - Egan Ford - 03-14-2008 50g shoot out of various Pi programs: http://sense.net/~egan/hpgcc/#Example:%20%20%CF%80%20Shootout Skip to the bottom if you want to see the winner: http://sense.net/~egan/hpgcc/#And%20the%20Winner%20is... Scroll down a bit on this link to see the 50g calculate Pi using Archimedes's 96 sided polygon: http://sense.net/~egan/hpgcc/#Sidebar:%20%20P2F Most of this is C code, but you don't need to compile the code yourself, you can simply download and play with the binaries:
http://sense.net/~egan/hpgcc/#Sidebar:%20%20Play%20First! Edited: 14 Mar 2008, 7:48 p.m.
Re: Happy Pi Day - Gerson W. Barbosa - 03-15-2008 Thanks, Egan! An alternative Pi Day will fall on 22-07 (Jul 22) here, right on my 47th birthday :-) Best regards,
Gerson.
Re: Happy Pi Day - Mike T. - 03-15-2008 I also found this article on the BBC News web site..
Mike T.
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