jim@ism780c.UUCP (Jim Balter) (02/17/86)
Every once in a while, someone tries to give pi a new value. Commodore-Amiga is the latest to join this disreputable group. From mathffp.h (with Lattice 3.02): #define PI ((FLOAT) 3.1415192653857) Aside from the extra `1' thrown in, the last three digits are off (but they are beyond the range of (float)). Anyone who introduces such obvious errors into something so tightly focused and easily verified is likely to introduce even more, and more subtle, errors in more demanding code. I hope that the code of the programmer involved will be given an extra review, and that future works of that programmer will be given extra attention during quality control procedures. Review? Quality control? But it's only a microcomputer! Uh huh. FYI: values to 50 places of pi 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510 e 2.71828182845904523536028747135266249775724709369995 log(10.0) 2.30258509299404568401799145468436420760110148862877 -- -- Jim Balter ({sdcrdcf!ism780c,ima}!jim)