Happy Pi Day



#2

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.


#3

Thanks, Egan!

An alternative Pi Day will fall on 22-07 (Jul 22) here, right on my 47th birthday :-)

Best regards,

Gerson.

#4

I also found this article on the BBC News web site..

Mike T.


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