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Only started with Perl4 and Perl5 in 1995. I was doing AWK etc for 12 years before that, and resisted switching. I've been doing OO since before C++ hit bigtime, with Objective-C and SmallTalk, so I really like the (no longer new) Perl5 OO style; and the Lispish Map style is also an old friend. What do I hack with Perl? All data that passes my way; systems monitoring scripts at $DayJob, weather data at night, and I cheat on NPR word puzzles. Member: Boston.pm.org [pm.org] BLU.org [blu.org]
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More fun with Perl and Pi
I'm somewhat surprised that Math::BigFloat doesn't have an AntiLog function for Euler's base 'e' (natural exponent). Hard coding it as a constant isn't terrible, but not nice either. I suppose I could compute it too
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
###
# Adaptation of my prior program to test XKCD's formulas 2007-01-31
# (9^2 + 19^2/22)^(1/4) = PI
# (e^pi - pi) = 20 - delta
# http://xkcd.com/c217.html
####
use strict;
use warnings;
use Math::BigFloat;
my $DIGS= ($ARGV[0]||10);
Math::BigFloat->div_scale($DIGS+5);
# (9^2 + 19^2/22) = PI
print "(9^2 + 19^2/22) = PI ? \n";
my $pi = new Math::BigFloat '9';
$pi->bpow(2);
$pi->bpow(2);
my $term= new Math::BigFloat'19';
$pi->badd($term->bpow(2)->bdiv(22));
# $pi->bsqrt()->bsqrt();
$pi->broot(4);
# compare to known-good from bottom of file
my $PI=(new Math::BigFloat <DATA>);
my $good=$PI->copy()->round($DIGS+2);
print $good, "\n";
print $pi->round($DIGS+1), "\n";
print ( ($good - $pi), "\n");
#####################
# part 2
# (e^pi - pi) = 20 - delta
print " (e^pi - pi) = 20 ?\n";
$pi=$PI->copy();
# my $e = (new Math::BigFloat '10')->bpow((new Math::BigFloat 1)/(new Math::BigFloat $LOG_10));
my $E = new Math::BigFloat '2.71828_18284_59045_23536';
my $VENTE=new Math::BigFloat '20.0';
print "$VENTE \n";
my $diff = $E->copy()->bpow($PI)->bsub($PI);
print $diff->round($DIGS)," \n";
print " ",(($VENTE - $diff)->round(3)), "\n";
# some accurate pi to compare output to:
__DATA__
3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197169399375105820974944592 30781640628621
Or is it a BUG?"
"Let's call it an accidental feature. :-)"
--Larry Wall in <6909@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Dup! (Score:2)
$pi->bpow(2);is duplicated.Calculating digits of pi-Gaussian method (Score:1)
use strict;
use Math::BigFloat;
use Time::HiRes;
my $x = Math::BigFloat->new(my $str);
$x->accuracy(100);
my $start = (times)[0];
$x=48*atan2(1,18)+32*atan2(1,57)-20*atan2(1,239);
my $end = (times)[0];
my $elapsed = $end-$start;
printf "%.100f".$x."\n";
printf "that took %.100f CPU seconds.\n",$elapsed;
My source for the calculation of pi is a formula attributed to Gauss in the 1977 Van Nostrand Reinhold "Encyclopedia of Mathematics." I was interested