Calculating the Value of Pi

This repository shows approaches to calculate the value of pi in different programing languages and parallelization schemes.

Aim

The primary aim of the provided source codes is to showcase the different ways of implementing a computation-heavy task in various programming languages. Possible optimization and parallelization approaches shall be illustrated, but peak performance is not of interest. Choosing the task of calculating the value of pi has the benefit of being easily understood and verified.

Requirements

The C++ code should be runnable on any system with a C++11 compiler.

It was tested with

• GCC 8.3.0 on Ubuntu 18.04
• MSVC 2019 on Windows 10 (1909)

References

This project took inspiration from the following university courses:

• RWTH Aachen University: Foundations of Computer Science 4 (Git)
• Norwegian University of Science and Technology: TDT4200 - Parallel Computing