On 11/07/2010 12:08 PM, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
Klaus-Peter Schragekpschrage@gmx.de writes:
You are probably alle wrong - pi equals 3.125, see: http://www.correctpi.com/
Arrrg. I don't believe that I actually tried to read that and follow his logic. Now my brain hurts. This needs a NSFB warning.
One question: does he ever explain why his value gets the wrong answers and the "traditional" one doesn't?
Back on the original topic, I suppose, if you want to be weird, you could try the method I did, about 25 years ago: use numeric integration to find the area under the function f(x) = sqrt( 1 - y^2 ) from 0 to 1 then multiply by 4. I did it in FORTRAN on a CP/M machine and it needed all night to come up with an answer to the limits of the machine's precision.