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Subject: Forwarded from FIGIL
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Date: Fri, 24-Jan-86 05:30:00 EST
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Date:  Wed, 22 Jan 86 11:41 EST
From:  "Maj. Douglas Hardie" <Hardie@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Subject:  Re: N-Digit Pi Code
To:  UMFORTH%WEIZMANN.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Message-ID:  <860122164158.237078@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>

The excerpts from the ET-FIG news Vol 1 Number 5 contained an entry that
calculates the desired number of digits of Pi.  However, upon
examination of the provided code, it only gives the digits of the
division:

                      355/113

While this is an approximation for Pi, it is not correct and in fact
differs from Pi in the 7th place past the decimal point.  Pi is defined
as an infinite series and no simple division can provide accuracy to an
arbitrary number of places.

-- Doug
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