Running for 10,000,000 twice I got 3.1405 the first run, and 3.1424 the second. (for an average of 3.1415) It's quite likely your rand() isn't perfect. (neither is mine 10,000,000 runs should give me a digit or two more accuracy).

Anyway, here is my favorite approximation for pi, mainly because it only uses the number 2. Even though two is normally a computer friendly number, this algorithm isn't, because it also uses sqrt's. With my perl, 14 iterations is gives the maximum accuracy: 3.14159265480759 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

print "Enter how many iterations:\n";
chomp(my $i = <>);

my $x = $i - 1;
my $y = sqrt(2);
do { $y = sqrt(2 + $y) while (--$x);
     $y = sqrt(2 - $y);
   } if $x;

my $z = $y * (2 ** $i);

print "Pi is close to: $z\n";

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So, while not the best, but I have some strange affinity to it. :)

Ciao,
Gryn

p.s. Sorry for the cryptic code for a quick decrypt its: (2**n)*sqrt(2-sqrt(2+sqrt(2+sqrt(2+sqrt(2))))) with the number of 2's inside the sqrt equaling n.

In reply to Accuracy of Random Pi by gryng
in thread Pi calculator by Fingo

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