> My favorite approximation is: 355/113 (visualize 113355 split into two 113 > 355 and then do the division). The first 6 decimal places are the same. > > 3.141592920353982 = 355/113 > vs > 3.1415926535897931
Another, rather funny, approximation of the first 15 digits of pi is to take the length of the words in the following verse: s = """ How I want a drink alcoholic of course After the heavy lectures involving complex functions """ print [len(w) for w in s.split()] will produce: [3, 1, 4, 1, 5, 9, 2, 6, 5, 3, 5, 8, 9, 7, 9] Laszlo -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
