*Before I go on, I would like to note that I have included the C code I used for calculating pi in πCALC...
The only reason I ever bothered releasing this is for all the non programers, who, after reading all this stuff in the paper about these math guys from MIT that calculated pi out to the billionth place, want to do it themselves. So, now you can!
Just double-click on the πCALC icon, and off you go! (To quit, you must hold down the Command and period buttons). You won't however, be able to calculate pi out to the billionth place, due to the limations of the Macintosh. I think you might be able to get it to the 20th place.
πCALC is for fun. I honestly don't expect anyone to think that it's a top-knotch pi calculator. I suggest that you let it run overnight.
I, myself, have used this program too. I let it run for about an hour, and I came up with:
π = 3.1416...
Now why did it take an hour? It had to run through this loop in the program 32,000 times. That can take a while.
Here's a brief discription of the πCALC window. When the program first loads, it will display a few credits, then have at it. The number you see on the far left is how long it's looped, and the next is what it has, so far, calculated pi to. Example:
1: π = 2.66667
2: π = 3.46667
3: π = 2.89524
4: π = 3.33968
5: π = 2.97605
Please note that all the numbers πCALC puts out are estimates, because pi can never be calculated.
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