http://code.activestate.com/recipes/tags/precision/top/2013-03-02T21:56:42-08:00ActiveState Code Recipes2013-03-02T21:56:42-08:00Bjorn Madsenhttp://code.activestate.com/recipes/users/4176352/http://code.activestate.com/recipes/578478-archimedes-method-for-pi-arbitrary-precision/

<p style="color: grey"> Python recipe 578478 by <a href="/recipes/users/4176352/">Bjorn Madsen</a> (<a href="/recipes/tags/decimal/">decimal</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/math/">math</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/pi/">pi</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/precision/">precision</a>, <a href="/recipes/tags/python3/">python3</a>). </p> <p>The code below incorporates the newly revised python 3.3.0 decimal module to permit arbitrary precision (<a href="http://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html%29" rel="nofollow">http://docs.python.org/3/library/decimal.html)</a></p> <p>The recipe was originally by FB35 from <a href="http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576981-archimedes-method-for-calculating-pi/" rel="nofollow">http://code.activestate.com/recipes/576981-archimedes-method-for-calculating-pi/</a> </p>