Calculating Pi is a project for the calculation of the mathematical constant Pi through various methods. Mathematicians and programmers are encouraged to contribute ideas or code for this project.
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This version uses a brute force mechanism which
calculates the area of a circle and divides it by
r^2. This release completes with far fewer
iterations than the previous release, since it
uses an antidifferentiated version of the formula
that computes the area. Note that dx=1, so a
radius much larger than 1 is required for good
results.
Tags:
Brute Force Method, Initial freshmeat announcement
