Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu!jgreely From: jgreely@morganucodon.cis.ohio-state.edu (J Greely) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: PI Message-ID: Date: 17 Dec 90 07:33:00 GMT References: <1942@beguine.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: J Greely Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 11 In-reply-to: Richard.Milward@samba.acs.unc.edu's message of 16 Dec 90 21:41:47 GMT In article <1942@beguine.UUCP> Richard.Milward@samba.acs.unc.edu (Richard Milward) writes: >An interesting and simple approximation to pi is >355/113, which is accurate to about 10**-6. Useful if you need to keep everything in integers, but otherwise you might as well just learn 3.141593. If you ever need more precision, it'll be easier to extend that knowledge to get 3.1415926536 than it will be to hunt up 312689/99532. -- J Greely (jgreely@cis.ohio-state.edu; osu-cis!jgreely)