use Perl

• A more boring alternative... (Score:1)

  by itub (5708)

  #!/usr/bin/perl
  
  use Math::Trig;
  
  printf "Pi is %.12f\n", pi;
  • If you want a few more digits... (Score:1)

    by runrig (3385)

    use Math::NumberCruncher qw($PI);
    
    print PI, "\n";
    • Re:If you want a few more digits... (Score:2)

      by brian_d_foy (44) <brian.d.foy@gmail.com> on 2006.04.21 15:13 (#47323) Homepage Journal

      Math::NumberCruncher just hard-codes it. I can't post it here because there is some filter in Slashcode to block posts with "awful long string of letters". Feh

      $PI = new Math::BigFloat "3.141592653589793...";

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      • Re:If you want a few more digits... (Score:1)

        by runrig (3385)

        Math::NumberCruncher just hard-codes it.

        Yeah, I knew that. So it was in a way an answer even more boring than the post I replied to :-) Nothing exciting like using log(-1) = -πi. But, having worked on the module, I just had to mention it :-)
        • Re:If you want a few more digits... (Score:2)

          by brian_d_foy (44)

          Now I'm kinda wondering if I can coerce Math::BigNum into my solution somehow so it gets a couple hundred decimal places....