# # pim.py # (c) Neil Gershenfeld 2/10/08 # calculation of pi by an array sum # pi = 3.14159265358979323846 # from numpy import * import time NPTS = 1000000 a = 0.5 b = 0.75 c = 0.25 pi = zeros(NPTS+1,dtype=float64) pi[0] = 0 start_time = time.time() for i in range(1,(NPTS+1)): pi[i] = pi[i-1] + a/((i-b)*(i-c)) end_time = time.time() mflops = NPTS*5.0/(1.0e6*(end_time-start_time)) print "NPTS = %d, pi = %f"%(NPTS,pi[NPTS]) print "time = %f, estimated MFlops = %f"%(end_time-start_time,mflops)