BC Programming Language - Calculating Pi To 10000 Places

Calculating Pi To 10000 Places

Calculate Pi using the builtin arctangent function, a.

# The atan of 1 is 45 degrees, which is pi/4 in radians. $ bc -l scale=10000 4*a(1) # This may take several minutes to calculate.

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