Re: [Tutor] How to calculate pi with another formula?

2005-04-14 Thread Kent Johnson
Dick Moores wrote: Now to my new question. I have an artist friend who knows an artist who needs pi expressed in base 12. I don't know how many digits he needs, but I think he'll take what he can get. Is there a way to use math.log(x, base) with the decimal module to accomplish this? Or is

Re: [Tutor] How to calculate pi with another formula?

2005-04-14 Thread Bill Mill
On 4/14/05, Kent Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dick Moores wrote: Now to my new question. I have an artist friend who knows an artist who needs pi expressed in base 12. I don't know how many digits he needs, but I think he'll take what he can get. Is there a way to use math.log(x,

Re: [Tutor] How to calculate pi with another formula?

2005-04-12 Thread Dick Moores
Gregor Lingl wrote at 11:27 10/29/2004: Hi Dick! Accidentally I just was tinkering around with the new decimal module of Python2.4. (By the way: it also works with Python 2.3 - just copy it into /Python23/Lib) The attached program uses a very elementary (and inefficient) formula to calculate pi,