Timeline for Pi Calculation Code Golf
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| Jun 17, 2020 at 9:04 | history | edited | CommunityBot | Commonmark migration | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 5:04 | comment | added | Jason C | @JerryCoffin Instead of arguing technicalities, suffice it to say that neither asin(-1) nor fldpi are particularly interesting or creative. There's not much purpose in competing to see whose favorite language has the shortest name for predefined trig functions and pi constants. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:50 | comment | added | Jerry Coffin | @JasonC: Sounds like an entirely arbitrary notion to me, with no more real sense than my deciding that people had to implement addition, subtraction, multiplication and division on their own if they're doing to use them. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:30 | comment | added | Jason C | What I mean to say is, I think fldpi doesn't count in the same way the higher level acos doesn't count (i.e. 99% of the answers here don't count). When I said "port this to assembler" above, that applies to most of the questions here, just replace "assembler" with the relevant language. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:14 | comment | added | Jerry Coffin | @JasonC: I might agree if even a significant minority of those using higher level languages were using something like an expansion of a Taylor series or some such, but virtually all of them also using predefined sin, cos, atan, sqrt, etc. | |
| Feb 26, 2014 at 4:07 | comment | added | Jason C | I don't think using a command that loads pi (or even computes it based on somebody else's asin implementation or any existing trig function implementations at all) really counts in the spirit of "calculating" anything (the "omg assembler" factor doesn't really change that). Perhaps port this to the shortest assembler implementation possible, and it can be called a "calculation". | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 21:11 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 2 characters in body |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:29 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 1 characters in body |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:27 | comment | added | Jerry Coffin | @NicolasBarbulesco: if memory serves, it did something like 6*asin(0.5), apparently because it converges quite quickly. | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:24 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 314 characters in body |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:22 | comment | added | TheMaskedCucumber | And, on some processors, what calculcation would fldpi do ? | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:18 | history | edited | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 314 characters in body |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:16 | comment | added | TheMaskedCucumber | Can you explain, please ? | |
| Feb 25, 2014 at 20:11 | history | answered | Jerry Coffin | CC BY-SA 3.0 |