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Re: Pi is not a real number?

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  • Subject: [mg86635] Re: Pi is not a real number?
  • From: Salvatore Mangano <smangano at into-technology.com>
  • Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 17:43:55 -0500 (EST)

Pi is a symbol. You need to convert it to a real number with N[Pi] or N[Pi, somePrecision]. In your case the precision is going to have to greater than 10^9 which is gonna eat a lot of memory and CPU!


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