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Approximating Pi with Python

One of the many approximations of Pi is the Gregory-Leibniz series (image source Wikipedia):

Leibnis Series for Pi

Here is an implementation in Python:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
Created on Sat Mar 25 06:52:11 2017
@author: Uwe Ziegenhagen
"""
 
sum = 0
factor = -1
 
for i in range(1, 640000, 2):
        sum = sum + factor * 1/i
        factor *= -1
        # print(sum)
 
print(-4*sum)

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