Xref: utzoo comp.compression:247 sci.math:16434 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!apple!fernwood!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!dde!Aragorn!ct From: ct@dde.dk (Claus Tondering) Newsgroups: comp.compression,sci.math Subject: Re: Program for Calculating PI Message-ID: <1991Apr5.064220.18509@dde.dk> Date: 5 Apr 91 06:42:20 GMT References: <1991Apr3.014832.15021@linus.mitre.org> <1991Apr4.132101.9623@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr4.150053.29873@linus.mitre.org> Organization: Dansk Data Elektronik A/S Lines: 12 bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: >WHAT IS SO FUCKING SPECIAL ABOUT COMPUTING PI AS OPPOSED TO SOME OTHER NUMBER? You may want to read Carl Sagan's book "Contact". Computing PI plays an incredibly important, even religious, role in that book. (And it is extremely well-written!) -- Claus Tondering, Dansk Data Elektronik A/S, Herlev, Denmark E-mail: ct@dde.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1 ns < 2 cents < 10 V < 1 km < 100 degrees C < 20 mips < 4 MPa < 1,000,000,000