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[Pitch] round π to nearest

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[Pitch] round π to nearest
Motivation About 130 years ago, the Indiana state legislature briefly entertained a bill (bill 246 of the 1897 sitting of the Indiana General Assembly) that would have incidentally legislated the value of π. I figure it's time to try again. When we designed the FloatingPoint protocols for Swift, IEEE 754 provided no guidance as to how π should be rounded. There are two plausibly defensible choices: the closest representable value, or the closest representable value that is strictly less than π ...

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