LabVIEW
Pi Approximation
I just saw a funny meme about a fraction that approximated PI to 2600 digits. That got me thinking of trying to find some, and this was my result!
22/7 (the real PI day) is surprisingly good at such a simple fraction. 355/113 is a really good approximation and you need to get to 99733/31746 to get the best 5 digit one. With the last one it's correct to 10 digits!
Cool!
Hey, this is 2026, so why not use a map instead of variant attributes?
On a side note, you could gain about 10-20% by just replacing the format into decimal string with a typecast. 😄
One flaw is that the third and fourth item have the same ratio
Here's a quick draft that is about 50x faster. but leaves out digit groups that show no improvement. Probably has some bugs. 😄
@altenbach wrote:
Here's a quick draft that is about 50x faster. but leaves out digit groups that show no improvement. Probably has some bugs. 😄
IMHO, when slicing up pi it is important to determine if there really are any bugs. Just guessing that they exist and serving them up anyway is making my laugh my a** off!
EDIT: I was just informed that my reaction is irrational.
@JÞB wrote:
EDIT: I was just informed that my reaction is irrational.
You are a COMPEX individual. 😄
My main concern were actually inherited from the original code. For example I did not understand where the 3183000 constant comes from. I initially made one with a while loop that terminated after checking all numbers up to a certain number of digits. This was slower, but still 10x faster than the original.
