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Dion, Peter; Ho, Anthony – Australian Senior Mathematics Journal, 2012
For at least 2000 years people have been trying to calculate the value of [pi], the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle. People know that [pi] is an irrational number; its decimal representation goes on forever. Early methods were geometric, involving the use of inscribed and circumscribed polygons of a circle. However, real…
Descriptors: Computers, Teaching Methods, Geometric Concepts, Programming