> On Jun 30, 2016, at 9:22 AM, Stephen Canon via swift-evolution 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> This was discussed as part of SE-0067.
> 
> The consensus was that pi deserved special treatment, as it is used in 
> general-purpose code an order of magnitude more often than the all other 
> constants combined.  I don’t think that anyone argued against it’s inclusion.

To me, it also makes sense to offer a common transcendental constant with the 
highest precision available to a particular floating point type.

-DW


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