[Tutor] How to calculate pi with another formula?
Kent Johnson
kent37 at tds.net
Thu Apr 14 14:30:52 CEST 2005
Dick Moores wrote:
> Now to my new question. I have an artist friend who knows an artist who
> needs pi expressed in base 12. I don't know how many digits he needs,
> but I think he'll take what he can get. Is there a way to use
> math.log(x, base) with the decimal module to accomplish this? Or is
> there another way? Or is there no way?
I think I would try to write a program that converts base-10 decimal fractions to base 12. Then feed
it the output of a pi-generating program.
Kent
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