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darkstalker
on July 24, 2012
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The Mystery of 355/113
355/113 has good enough precision to aproximate pi on single precision floating point
ajross
on July 24, 2012
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Not quite, but close. I get the delta as one part in 2^21.8. The mantissa of a IEEE float is 24 bits (including the leading one).
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