On Feb 21, 12:08 am, Mark Dickinson wrote:
> On Feb 20, 8:08 am, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
>
> > [...]
> > >>> n * e
>
> > 3.1415926
> Very neat! Is it supposed to be obvious why this gives an
> approximation to pi? If so, I'll think about it a bit more; if not,
> do you have any references?
On Feb 20, 8:08 am, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> [...]
> >>> n * e
>
> 3.1415926
>
> Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
Very neat! Is it supposed to be obvious why this gives an
approximation to pi? If so, I'll think about it a bit more; if not,
do you have any references?
Anssi Saari writes:
> Ben Finney writes:
> > It [appeared correctly] in my reader. Perhaps your server has
> > encoding trouble?
>
> He (or rather Google) used iso-8859-7 as a character set, which is the
> Latin/Greek alphabet and definitely has pi at 0xF0. Not exactly a
> common character set t
> eps would be a better name than e.
py> ε = 10.0 ** -7; n = 0; z = c = complex(-0.75, ε)
py> while abs(z) < 2.0:
... n += 1
... z = z * z + c
...
py> π = n * ε
py> print(π)
3.1415926
Regards,
Martin
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In article <87oc679bl2@benfinney.id.au>,
Ben Finney wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
> > Compute � � e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>
> Very cool! I love � nerdery.
>
>
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
> > > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
Ben Finney writes:
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
>> Compute π ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>
> Very cool! I love π nerdery.
>
>
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
>> > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>>
>> That should be: pi plus-or-minus e
>
> It was in my
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:08:58 -0800, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
e = 10.0 ** -7; n = 0; z = c = complex(-0.75, e)
while abs(z) < 2.0:
> n += 1
> z = z * z + c
>
n * e
> 3.1415926
Absolutely brilliant! That alone justifies including complex as a built-
in type. *wi
On Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:42:17 +1100, Ben Finney wrote:
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
>> Compute π ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>
> Very cool! I love π nerdery.
>
>
> Raymond Hettinger writes:
>
>> > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>>
>> That should be
Raymond Hettinger writes:
> Compute π ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
Very cool! I love π nerdery.
Raymond Hettinger writes:
> > Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
>
> That should be: pi plus-or-minus e
It was in my reader. Perhaps your server has encodin
> Compute ð ± e by counting Mandlebrot set iterations :-)
That should be: pi plus-or-minus e
Raymond
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