how to generate pi in c

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Mon Nov 8 20:21:23 UTC 2010


On Mon, 8 Nov 2010, Bruno Wolff III wrote:

> Just remember that depends on Euclidean Geometry. In other geometries (say
> very large circles on the surface of the earth) the ratio is different.

There aren't terribly many useful non-Euclidean
geometries for which there is a "the ratio".
Spherical geometry is not one of them.

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