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Jan@Bytesmiths.com (Jan Steinman) wrote:
>In article <31711755.328F@charm.net>, Bob Arning <arning@charm.net> wrote:
>
>> Jan Steinman wrote:
>...
>> > Ready, set, go (standard disclaimer, typed in off the top of my head):
>> > 
>> > | pi n |
>> > pi := 0.
>> > n := "number of hex digits of precision desired"
>> > 1 to: n do: [:i | pi := pi +
>> >   ((1 / (16 raisedTo: i) *
>> >     ((4 / ((8 * i) + 1)) +
>> >     (2 / ((8 * i) + 4)) +
>> >     (1 / ((8 * i) + 5)) +
>> >     (1 / ((8 * i) + 6))))].
>> > pi
>> > 
>> > Okay, has your C compiler finished yet? :-)
>...
>> Your standard disclaimer notwithstanding, it would be a more impressive 
>> example if it actually worked. Where does the missing right paren go?
>
>Oops! I separated it into one factor and four terms, but I guess I wasn't
>counting right. Without the Smalltalk paren-matcher, I'd have to guess it
>goes before the square bracket. Sorry!
>
> : Jan Steinman <mailto:Jan@Bytesmiths.com>
> : Bytesmiths, the Smalltalk specialists <http://www.bytesmiths.com>
> : "This is witty signature 1 of 47,288."


Of course, guys, the wonderful thing about Smalltalk is that if Jan's code 
had been typed into a workspace and executed, the error (a simple typo) 
would have been detected immediately. What about the poor C++ coder? Fix 
it, then compile -again-! :-)

Regards,
Col

 
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