12 Jul
2006
12 Jul
'06
3:06 p.m.
On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Richard Guy wrote:
Surely best to follow Archimedes and calculate the perimeters of inscribed and circumscribed regular 6-, 12-, 24-, ...-gons? R.
Working that out computationally seems to require sines, so that the problem of calculating pi reduces to the problem of calculating sines, yes? -J