Re: How to convert a string containing two hex digits to a character?

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<95653745-d21d-4cf9-8604-315ff185021a@j5g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
 Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne) <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> wrote:

> Found here : http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html
> 
> Funny to apply this on Pi :P

Well, I had to try it:

>>> float.as_integer_ratio(math.pi);
(884279719003555L, 281474976710656L)

It's not as good as my favorite, due to Arima Yoriyuki:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arima_Yoriyuki>

$ cat pi.bc 
#!/usr/bin/bc -lq
scale = 30
print "python: ",884279719003555/281474976710656,"\n"
print "Arima:  ",428224593349304/136308121570117,"\n"
print "4*a(1): ",4*a(1),"\n"
print "Wiki:   3.141592653589793238462643383279\n"
quit

$ ./pi.bc 
python: 3.141592653589793115997963468544
Arima:  3.141592653589793238462643383275
4*a(1): 3.141592653589793238462643383276
Wiki:   3.141592653589793238462643383279

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