Re: Re: Golf -- compute PI

[PrakashK]

in reply to Re: Golf -- compute PI
in thread Golf -- compute PI

# 23 Characters
use Math::Trig;warn pi;

Why warn, when you can die saving one more character?

# 22 Characters
use Math::Trig;die pi;

And, you can shave one more character, if you don't care for that pesky semi-colon at the end.

Oh, never mind. We are not supposed to use trig functions.

/prakash

[Sweeper]

You can get the same result with 20 chars:

die 3.14159265358979

I found this trick in Logique, informatique et paradoxes, publisher Belin (Pour la Science), page 67, it was about the shorter program to get (not compute) pi with n digits.