YES!!! I just spent 3 minutes programming a C++ program to calculate an approximation to Pi given a limit for the maximum value of the denominator!! With a maximum value of 1,000,000 for the denominator, the best fraction is 3126535/995207 (that's an error of approximately 8/(7 E-12)) That only took a second to calculate!!! For 1,000,000,000 as the maximum...calculated in a whopping 15 minutes ;( ...
245850922/78256779 (this is an error of 7.8179 E-17, though a calculator may say it is exact because of round off error...when in approx mode on my 89, it says true, but when in exact it says false...)

Hey, I think I have an idea on how you did that too... I think I might try something like that in QBASIC... just for fun :) It shouldn't take too much code.
Aahh! About 100 posts disappeared! NO! :(

I noticed the "phantom posts" too...they were the old-earth/young-earth arguments. BTW...the program was really short...pretty simple...here's the code I had for it: (spacing taken out)


#include <iostream.h>

#define PI 3.14159265358979324 //can't take more :)
#define ACCURACY 1000000000 //maximum denominator
void main(void)
{
long g,h,j;
long double min=999, max=-999;

for(g=1;g<ACCURACY;g++)
{
if(g*PI-int(g*PI)<min)
{
min=g*PI-int(g*PI);
h=g;
}
if(g*PI-int(g*PI)>max)
{
max=g*PI-int(g*PI);
j=g;
}
}
cout<<h<<endl<<j<< endl <<min<<endl<<max<<endl;
}

It wouldn't take to long to alter this to work on an 89...I'll try it...then submit it. :)

ok...I uploaded it...I accidentally did it as 83 basic games though... oops

I e-mailed the archivers though. Hopefully they fix it...

It's fixed. I saw that also... you coded that similarly to the same way I would have. :) (I think your way is faster)

I think about 30 more posts have been deleted. I noticed this when I was trying to reply to a post and it said something like "Error: this post or article no longer exists". Nooooo! Some of my posts were there too.

I think that's the first time any of my posts have been pruned from here. ticalc.org is getting pretty strict with posts, aren't they?

Maybe there's an ultierior motive... Like, "ignore the n00bs" or something... I dunno...

BTW, nice e-mail addy.

Not saying you're a n00b. (I just checked your ID number. :x )

Way to go archivers!!! I uploaded 2 files, and the first one was posted by the time I was done uploading the second one (over 56k)!!! Then the second one was posted 7 minutes after the first one!!! I hope it can always be like this (during reasonable hours of course)!!!

One note: Could you please remove Learn Pi! from the TI-83 BASIC Math Programs directory (http://www.ticalc.org/archives/ files/fileinfo/274/27450.html) because it uses Archive/Unarchive and I stupidly put it in the regular 83's folder (I didn't remember it at the time).

The Web Site link is my author information page, whoo hoo!

I merged it together with the 83+ version. Basically same thing as removing the other.

Thanks. And yeah, I'll help ya do screenshots. Outlook Express is hanging when I try to reply in it, so I'm going to Hotmail in Internet Exploder (not a typo) to reply to you.

I'm reinstalling my programs soon so I'll have my good image editor, but in the meantime, I already got a VTI capturer that gets GIFs (that's how I got them in the last uploads). However, I am on 56k, so it'll take a while to download a lot, but I already have I dunno, 50 or so (and I only have 6 on my calc - go figure). I don't have school tomorow (jeez, I just forgot how to spell that), but I have to look for a job and get my hair cut, but I'll tell my computer to download all the allfiles.zip before I leave... Hopefully I'll be able to get at least 20 done for ya when I get back.

Something so simple, yet I ramble again... *grr*

I just did six for the ACE games... but my 5700|°1d sister wants to y0053 the computer, so I have to get off now. NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! GOOD BYE LIFE!

I'll e-mail 'em when I get more than six lol

Doing ace games is harder than I thought. VTI doesn't support ROM version 19.006. ACE = 19.006

So, you have an annoying sibling who decreases your time on ticalc.org? Small world. I have an annoying litte brother who can override my connection to the internet *cry*

Does anyone else here have annoying siblings?

Not only do I not have an annoying siblings, I have no siblings whatsoever. :p

HEY! The files don't have weekly ratings! What happened?! I had a good rating on my fraction program earlier to day too!!!

If nobody dlds your program after the new week starts, it doesn't give you a week rating, I think.

Hey, that was weird, I reloaded the page just as ticalc was shifting the messages on the board. I got a blank page :) LOLOLOL

this is the sweetest site....(it's not mine...i wish....)

this is the sweetest site....(it's not mine...i wish....)

http://3.141592653589793 2384626433832795028841971693 993751058209.maxg.org/pi

i had to space it twice because it's so long (the space isn't really there

It's been posted.

3.14159265358979323846264

Here are my two Pi programs. The first displays Pi on the graph screen, and the second approximates it.

http://www.ticalc.org/ archives/files/fileinfo/ 196/19685.html
http://www.ticalc.org/ archives/files/fileinfo/ 175/17598.html

-Ben

I'm not trying to be rude, but it's getting a little late to be posting Pi Day stuff... Especially Pi Learners :p (I mean, it's almost a week after Pi Day!)