Everything you never wanted to hear about code review

Disclaimer: I recognize the fact that in some industry domains code review is a mandatory part of the process and a company would not be able to get a product certified or sold without a proven and rigid code review process. During my time with Motorola Solutions, I worked on Public Safety systems, so I this kind of experience - the same applies to any kind of software where risk to human life or high financial loss is a factor: controlling of energy plants, transportation, space missions, medical equipment. The story that I'm about to tell you is *NOT* about any of these. It is about the regular software development that is done by 80% of us, software developers, all over the world.

π approximation with Python and mpmath

Computers were originally made for computing, hence the name - computers. In this post we are going to try to compute the π constant with at least medium precision, let's say, to the first 150 digits.

There is a wide choice of π approximation methods: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80

People made attempts to approximate the number π since Before Christ, so the approaches range from ancient to really modern. We are going to use a method devised by a French mathematician François Viète in 16th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi%C3%A8te%27s_formula