8-Bit Show And Tell | Estimating Pi With Commodore 64 Logo (the language, not the chicken lips!) @8_Bit | Uploaded March 2020 | Updated October 2024, 10 hours ago.
For Pi Day I brush the 35-year-old rust off my Logo skills and attempt to implement a "Monte Carlo" method estimation of Pi. I also demonstrate a much more accurate Pi calculator for the C64 that's available for other vintage computers too.

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Pi Calculator: http://litwr2.atspace.eu/pi/pi-spigot-benchmark.html
Transactor Vol. 5 Issue 2: archive.org/details/transactor-magazines-v5-i02/page/n63/mode/2up
C64 Wiki on Logo: c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commodore_Logo
Downloads of Commodore Logo: gmontag451.wordpress.com/2008/02/02/hello-world

Index:
0:00 Intro
0:41 Pi Calculator benchmark
2:55 Estimating Pi in Transactor magazine
5:06 Commodore Logo
8:35 Turtle Graphics
12:45 Calculating Pi program walkthrough
20:45 Calculating Pi!
23:14 Thanks to my patrons!
23:47 Pi: 50 Digits of Fun

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