Quick question about the pi button

[Ryan Tebble]

Can someone explain to me how an approximate value for pi is stored within a calculator memory, or is the value calculated upon pressing the pi button?

I know finding the volume of the unit circle, is one way to find the digits of pi, but I'm curious on exactly how the calculator does it. Is it a stand alone function, or a stored value?

I assume for non CAS it would be stored, but for the CAS it potentially  could be a stand alone function. Anyone know? 

[Ryan Tebble]

Volume... I mean area. 

[John Hanna]

I’m not a developer, just a programmer. I believe pi and e are just stored as constants, not calculated.

 

But trig functions are calculated. See CORDIC algorithm: CORDIC - Wikipedia

 

 

Be Excellent,

     John Hanna

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[Ryan Tebble]

Thanks, was thinking of an idea for an assignment, calculating a certain number of digitis of pi, by integrating 0 to 1 of a quarter circle, or 0 to 1/2, etc. I know that would work, along with other iteration methods. But was curious, whether constants were stored or calculated. 

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[John Hanna]

Actually, calculating area of a circle or even a numeric sequence is still limited to 14 dp accuracy. There are other algorithms that can produce the digits of pi rather than an approximation for pi.

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[Cristián Espinoza]

could it be an answer?

https://youtu.be/gMlf1ELvRzc

Best regards

C.

Amicus Plato sed magis amica veritas.

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