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Re:Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis by pm321 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @04:35AM (#22933118)
"back then you didn't just have to know what Pi is, you had to have the smallest program to calculate it"

A floating point division on two three digit numbers used to be used as a good enough approximation to 𝛑.

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Re:Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis by saagarjha on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @05:39AM (#22933423)
3.14159 is often a good enough approximation for pi.
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