Pi is a reserved work, so I used pie. I haven’t seen this way of producing Pi before, and in both JavaScript and LivceCode it seems to be instantaneous. I think it’s a rewording of 4*(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9…)
Anyway, see for yourself on mouseup put the ticks into t put 1.0 into i put 3.0 * 10^200 into x put x into pie repeat while (x > 0) put x * i / ((i + 1.0) * 4.0) into x add x / (i + 2.0) to pie add 2.0 to i end repeat set numberformat to "x.xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" answer the ticks - t answer (pie / (10.0 ^ 200)) end mouseup BTW, I haven’t seen JavaScript using ‘let’ before, or having ’n’ to indicate a floating point number. That could be a dot net thing. > On Oct 5, 2019, at 8:33 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 10/5/19 6:01 PM, Mark Wieder via use-livecode wrote: >> On 10/5/19 4:57 PM, JB via use-livecode wrote: >>> Hi Mark, >>> I just visited the link Richard provided and it shows the following; >> Hah! I missed a very important word in that sentence. > > Nonetheless, here's pi in nine lines of javascript. I haven't tried > converting this yet... anyone wanna try writing this in LiveCode? And > benchmarking it? > > <http://ajennings.net/blog/a-million-digits-of-pi-in-9-lines-of-javascript.html> _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
