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I know PI is approx 3.142... but how did "they" work that out? I don't think it was with a string and a ruler, unless it was a very big circle. I heard somewhere that there was a computer program working out the defininate value of PI, that it is a very long number and doesn't seem to have an end. How could I conjure up something in C++ to compute the value of PI without a constant, or just typing it -for learning purposes.