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For anyone wondering, the highest precision you can get for pi() or M_PI is 20 places after the decimal point, or 3.14159265358979323846.
pi
(PHP 4, PHP 5)
pi — Get value of pi
Description
float pi
( void
)
Returns an approximation of pi. The returned float has a precision based on the precision directive in php.ini, which defaults to 14. Also, you can use the M_PI constant which yields identical results to pi().
Return Values
The value of pi as float.
Examples
Example #1 pi() example
<?php
echo pi(); // 3.1415926535898
echo M_PI; // 3.1415926535898
?>
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User Contributed Notespi
Keamos at gmail
14-Jan-2006 12:31
14-Jan-2006 12:31
davidduke at hotmail dot com
27-Mar-2004 09:18
27-Mar-2004 09:18
Pi is often usefull in con/sin/tan functions..
There are also other Pi related constants.
These are most of them:
M_PI = 3.14159265358979323846 // pi
// The following were added in PHP 4.0.0
M_PI_2 = 1.57079632679489661923 // pi/2
M_PI_4 = 0.78539816339744830962 // pi/4
M_1_PI = 0.31830988618379067154 // 1/pi
M_2_PI = 0.63661977236758134308 // 2/pi
M_SQRTPI = 1.77245385090551602729 // sqrt(pi) (Only in PHP 4.0.2+)
M_2_SQRTPI = 1.12837916709551257390 // 2/sqrt(pi)