How will results be displayed? Stars? Bar graph? Numerical? Mean? Mode? Median?

Dot plot

Let's try to get the average rating of a program to equal pi. !!!

BTW, the "!!!" is 3 exclaimation marks, not factorials

Well, you can't take the factorial of pi anyway... or can you? I was looking this up somewhere, and I saw something like n! = gamma(n+1) (I think that's it), and apparently, you can take factorials of nonintegers... weird.

actually, i thought that factorial was equivalent to the gamma function, and that the gamma(n+1) bit was part of a proof that defines gamma as factorial.

you must be able to take factorial of non-ints... how else is 4 * (.5!)^2 == pi?

Yeah, that's why I originally looked this up. [link]

hmm... that's interesting

when I type in pi! on my 49g, it says it's equal to 7.18808272898, but maybe that's just the way the 49g calculates factorials...with a taylor polynomial or something...hmmm....

This would be a good goal for pi day, also it could be one of those "memorize pi" prgms

ok, but not no_one's and my (wow...that's correct, but sounds REALLY wierd) mempi89 program! I don't want a 3.14 rating! Well, as long as it didn't affect it being deleted from the archives, I actually think it might be pretty cool...

BTW...when are the statistics posted? and where?

When I read that, I saw "This is a good day to pi!"

i wonder if people in the back in 1592 knew how significant march 14th was

Yes. Pi has been known for millennia.

it is possible that the digits of pi were not known very accurately back then though. Or more likely, they were known accurately, but only by a few people. I think Newton might have been around then, so he might have known...

I read somewhere that someone used one of the "arctan" methods to accurately calculate over 100 digits **BY HAND** back in the 1200's or so...so yes, they did have pretty accurate values of pi...

1->10...hmm, what are you going to do with the database? add a sort-by-rating feature to each directory?
1->10 seems like a pretty good way to go about it but couldn't there be a system where you rate the file on certain aspects of the program?

Pi Day, would someone like to allocate an official Pi day? I'm feeling a little edgy with it being around the corner every year, not that it would be the same day, as our dating is day/month/year.

FYI: The accounts 42784 46824 don't appear when I click the orange files buttons in the author profiles. The users do exist, but maybe a database problem or mistakenly* ommited? =P

The account has been configured not to be shown in the directory using Account Preferences.

arent you 42784?

Nice catch :-)