#17131: Improve accuracy of polytopes.regular_polygon()
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Reporter: jdemeyer | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.4
Component: geometry | Keywords:
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The function `polytopes.regular_polygon()` uses a hard-coded approximation
of `pi` (3.14159265359) which has an error of 466 ulp. Moreover, it uses
Python `float`s instead of `RR`, which breaks a doctest in #17130.
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/17131>
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