What's π in Hexadecimal?

[Daecon]

How do you calculate pi using Base 16?

 

According to Wikipedia it's 3.243F6A8885A308D31319… but how did they arrive at that number?

[timo]

Of course no one except the person who wrote it can tell you how he/she arrived at this number. Here's a little pseudo-code for conversion:

float f = number<16.
vector<int> digits.
while (you haven't got enough) {
 int i = integer_part(f).
 digits.append(i).
 f -> (f-i)*16.
}

It't quite the same as if you were scanning for the decimals of a number except that you replace base 10 with base 16.

[YT2095]

What's π in Hexadecimal?

 

it simply donates Number, as certain combinations of letters used in Hex could be mistaken for words.

sometimes a `H` is used also.

 

Also... in Hex there is realistically no difference in Pi to look at than there is in Decimal on a Pure basis (it falls between 1 and F), however in Reality using 4 bit binary there is a translation!