Tomorrow is pi-day….
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Tomorrow is 3/14, known as pi day, or Albert Einstein’s birthday. How better to celebrate than with a script in pi-thon?
#!/usr/bin/env python
from itertools import islice
def g(q, r, t, i):
while True:
u, y =3*(3*i+1)*(3*i+2), (q*(27*i-12)+5*r) // (5 * t)
yield y
q, r, t, i = 10*q*i*(2*i-1), 10*u*(q*(5*i-2)+r-y*t), t*u, i+1
def pig():
return g(1,180,60,2)
p = pig()
pistr = ''.join([ str(x) for x in islice(p, 10001)])
print "%s." % pistr[0]
def byn(s, n):
return [s[x:x+n] for x in range(0, len(s), n)]
for line in byn(pistr[1:], 50):
for group in byn(line, 5):
print group,
print
