Problem 953. Pi Estimate 1

Created by Ed Hall

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Estimate Pi as described in the following link: http://www.people.virginia.edu/~teh1m/cody/Pi_estimation1.pdf

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tiwag7 on 8 Oct 2019

please update the link to the document, cant find it anymore

Daniel Montag on 30 Oct 2019

The link is broken, but you can solve this problem with the Leibniz formula for π.

Adam Jelínek on 2 Dec 2019

The principle is described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_formula_for_%CF%80

Paul Derwin on 4 May 2020 at 10:07

@Jordan Wilkerson change the number format and round to significant digits shown in test code

Jordan Wilkerson on 4 May 2020 at 14:29

@Paul Derwin
Oh right, duh. I should've thought of that haha. That worked! I deleted my last comment since it basically was a solution after all. Thanks for your help!

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