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  • $pi->bpow(2); is duplicated.
  • I came up with the following code recently as an experiment:


    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
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