BenMeadowcroft.comSyndicated content from Ben Meadowcrofts website, talks a lot about programming and internet technologies like cascading style sheets, XHTML, XML and RSS.Random- (Found June 24, 2008 ) Random &960;. (posted 10th August 2005) The ridiculous fish blog recently posted an entry about using "random" large integers to calculate &960;. That post was in the context of getting blog commentators to enter two large integer values as a kind of CAPTCHA to keep out spammers automated commenting bots. The idea of calculating pi using just random sequences of integers was intriguing to me so I set about implementing it in JavaScript. I've included the functions used below: First a...http://www.benmeadowcroft.com/me/archive/2005/august/#link_10th_1 |