Talk:Pi: Difference between revisions

I think what's currently at [[Pi]] should be moved to [[Pi/Spigot]], to reflect that it's asking for a spigot algorithm for Pi. It may also be a good idea to have [[Pi/Constant]], for language-provided constants representing pi, or some specific approximation thereof. Perhaps [[Pi]] itself should be left more general, or as a set of links to other ways to retrieve Pi. Or perhaps be a task which ''uses'' pi, which necessitates an example author's obtaining the value somehow. ("Calculate the circumference of the circle whose radius is 1/2π" would probably be sufficient and interesting; the correct answer is 1, but most code would reach that result only through precision loss.) Part of the trouble I'm observing in the hoopla around this task right now appears to be that the GUISS solution doesn't solve the task as stated, but ''does'' answer the question "how do I get π into my program," which is a question I'm likely to have if I were to visit a Rosetta Code task page named Pi. --[[User:Short Circuit|Michael Mol]] 11:56, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

:If we create Pi/Constant it should just redirect to [[Real constants and functions]]. I'd be ok with renaming this page to a specific algorithm name. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 12:20, 26 July 2011 (UTC)