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by schoen 789 days ago
Isn't there an obfuscated C or Perl competition program that also estimates pi by measuring its own code in some way?

Edit: Oh yes, it's "westley" from 1988: https://www.ioccc.org/years-spoiler.html#1988_westley

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I made a JavaScript port, that might be easier to decipher if you are more familiar with js than C: https://quaxio.com/pi.html
Do you mind me asking, what does the last calculation do: pi=(pi * 100 | 0 ) / 100;

EDIT: Ah, nvm. It's truncating the result to 2 decimal places.

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There are just too many ways in JS to say Math.floor