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pi

Name

pi — Returns the value of pi.

Synopsis

float pi(void)

Returns

Value of pi

Description

Returns a double containing the value of pi. The number of decimal places is system-specific; for instance, on a Linux x86 box the value returned is 3.1415926535898.

Note that it will be slightly faster in most cases to simply use the named constant M_PI, which is provided by PHP. The pi() function simply returns this value.

Version

PHP 3, PHP 4

Example

Example 686. Get pi

$radius = 6;
$area = pi() * pow($radius, 2); // area = pi * r^2
echo "Area of circle with radius $radius is $area";



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