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- From: Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.java,comp.lang.c++,comp.lang.smalltalk
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 16 Apr 1996 00:35:15 GMT
- Organization: Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk start-up specialists
- Message-ID: <Jan-1504962032120001@news.magmacom.com>
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- In article <31711755.328F@charm.net>, Bob Arning <arning@charm.net> wrote:
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- > Jan Steinman wrote:
- ...
- > > Ready, set, go (standard disclaimer, typed in off the top of my head):
- > >
- > > | pi n |
- > > pi := 0.
- > > n := "number of hex digits of precision desired"
- > > 1 to: n do: [:i | pi := pi +
- > > ((1 / (16 raisedTo: i) *
- > > ((4 / ((8 * i) + 1)) +
- > > (2 / ((8 * i) + 4)) +
- > > (1 / ((8 * i) + 5)) +
- > > (1 / ((8 * i) + 6))))].
- > > pi
- > >
- > > Okay, has your C compiler finished yet? :-)
- ...
- > Your standard disclaimer notwithstanding, it would be a more impressive
- > example if it actually worked. Where does the missing right paren go?
-
- Oops! I separated it into one factor and four terms, but I guess I wasn't
- counting right. Without the Smalltalk paren-matcher, I'd have to guess it
- goes before the square bracket. Sorry!
-
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