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  2. Pi - Wikipedia

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    The number π (/ p aɪ /; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.

  3. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    Consider all cells (x, y) in which both x and y are integers between − r and r. Starting at 0, add 1 for each cell whose distance to the origin (0, 0) is less than or equal to r. When finished, divide the sum, representing the area of a circle of radius r, by r 2 to find the approximation of π. For example, if r is 5, then the cells ...

  4. Orders of magnitude (numbers) - Wikipedia

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    1/52! chance of a specific shuffle Mathematics: The chances of shuffling a standard 52-card deck in any specific order is around 1.24 × 10 −68 (or exactly 1 ⁄ 52!) [4] Computing: The number 1.4 × 10 −45 is approximately equal to the smallest positive non-zero value that can be represented by a single-precision IEEE floating-point value.

  5. Golden ratio - Wikipedia

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    The time needed to compute ⁠ ⁠ digits of the golden ratio using Newton's method is essentially ⁠ (()) ⁠, where ⁠ ⁠ is the time complexity of multiplying two ⁠ ⁠-digit numbers. [65] This is considerably faster than known algorithms for π and e. An easily programmed alternative using only integer arithmetic is to calculate two ...

  6. Prime number theorem - Wikipedia

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    The prime number theorem then states that x / log x is a good approximation to π(x) (where log here means the natural logarithm), in the sense that the limit of the quotient of the two functions π(x) and x / log x as x increases without bound is 1:

  7. Elementary algebra - Wikipedia

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    For example, taking the statement x + 1 = 0, if x is substituted with 1, this implies 1 + 1 = 2 = 0, which is false, which implies that if x + 1 = 0 then x cannot be 1. If x and y are integers, rationals, or real numbers, then xy = 0 implies x = 0 or y = 0. Consider abc = 0. Then, substituting a for x and bc for y, we learn a = 0 or bc = 0.

  8. Sine and cosine - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, sine and cosine are trigonometric functions of an angle.The sine and cosine of an acute angle are defined in the context of a right triangle: for the specified angle, its sine is the ratio of the length of the side that is opposite that angle to the length of the longest side of the triangle (the hypotenuse), and the cosine is the ratio of the length of the adjacent leg to that ...

  9. Array slicing - Wikipedia

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    declare x(5,5); declare y(5) defined(x(1sub,1sub)); A reference to Y(2) is a reference to X(2,2) , and so on. A slice, called a cross-section , of an array can be referred to by using asterisk as the subscript for one or more dimensions.