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From: John Clark
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Time: 2012-08-18, 11:01:39
Subject: Re: On calculating pi
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Roger wrote:
>how can they know if the calculation of pi is very precise if they
don't really know befor
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Roger wrote:
>how can they know if the calculation of pi is very precise if they
> don't really know beforehand what its precise value should be ?
>
But we do know the precise value of pi, 250 years ago Euler proved that pi
squared divided by 6 is EXACTLY equal
On 18 Aug 2012, at 15:50, Roger wrote:
Hi Bruno Marchal
BTW how can they know if the calculation of pi is very precise if they
don't really know beforehand what its precise value should be ?
Because PI is a clear concept, and you can prove that some algorithm
computes its exact value, as
Hi Bruno Marchal
BTW how can they know if the calculation of pi is very precise if they
don't really know beforehand what its precise value should be ?
Roger , rclo...@verizon.net
8/18/2012
Leibniz would say, "If there's no God, we'd have to invent him so everything
could function."
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