This challenge involves the mathematical constant pi.
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Solve the CodeSprint4 Leibniz code golf challenge in Python in 66 characters
Check out this challenge:
https://www.hackerrank.com/codesprint4/challenges/leibniz
(The competition has already ended, so I'm just curious about the Python solution, which the organizers refused to ...
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Calculate pi to 5 decimals
This comes from http://programmers.blogoverflow.com/2012/08/20-controversial-programming-opinions/
"Given that Pi can be estimated using the function 4 * (1 – 1/3 + 1/5 – 1/7 + …) with more terms ...
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Good rational approximations of pi
Write a program that prints out all the good rational approximations of pi with denominator < 1000000, in increasing denominator order. a/b is a "good rational approximation" of pi if it is closer ...
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Calculate digits of Pi
This is a somewhat different task. Calculate1024 hexadecimal digits of pi, beginning at the 1024th hexadecimal place.
Formally: Your program should complete in less then 1 minute and produce the ...
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Calculate 500 digits of pi
Write a program to calculate the first 500 digits of pi, meeting the rules below:
It must be less than 500 characters in length.
It cannot include "pi", "math.pi" or similar pi constants, nor may it ...
