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Happy pi Approximation Day 2014 — 2014-07-22 00:10
Updated: 2015-01-23 22:59
It’s 22/7 again. Last year on pi Approximation Day I published a simple Forth program based on an intuitive geometrical idea: see Happy pi approximation day 2013 (<https://blog.ageinghacker.net/posts/13>). I’ve been thinking about what to do in 2014 for some time, without finding anything as nice from the programming point of view. Sure, you can find series and continued fractions converging to pi, even rapidly; these methods work, but the corresponding programs are trivial to code and don’t provide any insight. So I chose another route: a practical experiment to approximate pi by cutting and weighing metal. The result turned out [...] Read more
Tags: english, experiment, gnu, guile, hacking, pi, science

Happy pi approximation day 2013 — 2013-07-21 12:34
Updated: 2014-07-21 21:14
The fraction 22/7 has been known since antiquity as a simple rational approximation of pi. The fraction decimal expansion is 3.(142857); since pi is about 3.141592653589793, the approximation has three correct digits. Of course nowadays we can compute much better approximations with computers, and billions of digits are known: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximationsofπ> is a nice review also explaining some efficient computation methods. For example if you want to obtain a lot of pi digits in a short time you may like the series by Ramanujan, yielding very good approximations even with a small number of terms; but that’s not the point now. [...] Read more
Tags: forth, gnu, hacking, pi, tutorial

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