About:
Calculating Pi is a project for the calculation of the mathematical constant Pi through various methods. Mathematicians and programmers are encouraged to contribute ideas or code for this project.

Release focus: Initial freshmeat announcement

Changes:
This version uses a brute force mechanism which calculates the area of a circle and divides it by r^2. This release completes with far fewer iterations than the previous release, since it uses an antidifferentiated version of the formula that computes the area. Note that dx=1, so a radius much larger than 1 is required for good results.

Author:
Sayan Chakraborti [contact developer]

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
7.80/10.00 (5 votes)

Tar/GZ:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=54167

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		3 - Alpha, 4 - Beta
[Environment]		Console (Text Based), Web Environment, Win32 (MS Windows)
[Intended Audience]		Developers, End Users/Desktop
[License]		OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL)
[Operating System]		OS Independent
[Programming Language]		C, C++, PHP
[Topic]		Scientific/Engineering :: Mathematics, Scientific/Engineering :: Visualization

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Multiple Dimensions Uses brute force to calculate Pi for circles, spheres, and hyperspheres.	First Release	04-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Archimedes Calculates the value of Pi using Archimedes' Method.	2002-01-07	08-Jan-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Arctan Formula Calculates the value of Pi using arctan formulae.	First Release	06-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Brute Force Method Approximates Pi by computing the area of a circle by brute force.	Second Release	09-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Chudnovsky Method Calculates Pi using the method discovered by the Chudnovsky brothers.	First Release	20-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Circumference Method Uses the calculated approximate circumference of a given circle.	First Release	30-Sep-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Digit Extraction Methods Programs using various digit extraction algorithms.	Plouffe and Bellard 1_om	23-Jan-2004	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Gauss-Legendre Method Calculates Pi using the Gauss-Legendre method.	First Release	11-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Integration Computation of Pi by estimating integrals of known formulae.	Taninverse	21-Jun-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Ramanujan Calculates pi using an infinite series developed by Ramanujan.	2003-01-29	29-Jan-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Simple Harmonic Motion Calculates the value of Pi using Simple Harmonic Motion.	Second Visual Release	05-Jan-2003	GNU General Public License (GPL)
Wallis' Formula Calculates Pi by Wallis' Formula.	Second Release	15-Jul-2002	GNU General Public License (GPL)

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
Second Release	Initial freshmeat announcement	09-Jul-2002 13:49