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From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
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Subject: Re: how to generate pi in c
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On Fri, 5 Nov 2010 13:39:05 -0400, Alejandro Imass <ait@p2ee.org> wrote:
> This is how I do it in perl
> use constant PI => 4 * atan2(1, 1);
> 
> In C it owuld probably be (using math.h):
> 
> pi = 4.0*atan(1.0);

Or use M_PI from /usr/include/math.h, as we already #include'd
it. :-) 

#define M_PI            3.14159265358979323846



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