On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 9:50 AM, John Darrington < john@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > pi is an irrational number. You would need an infinite number of digits > wouldn't you? > Good point :-). All I meant was enough digits that it parsed as the same floating-point number that (atan 0 -1) returns. Noah Lavine