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It would be nice to have a different color for languages that give the exact IEEE 754 result. Other languages can be using some kind of fast math. Sorted by accuracy:

   #   Language          Accuracy
  14   Swift (SIMD)          8.69
   9   Fortran 90            9.44
   2   C# (SIMD)             9.49
   .   [All the others]      9.50


Is "accuracy" defined anywhere on that page?


From https://github.com/niklas-heer/speed-comparison/blob/master/...

  // [I removed the error checking]
  def pi_accuracy(value_str):
      """Calculate accuracy of computed pi value.
      Returns the number of correct decimal places (higher is better).
      """
      value = float(value_str)
      # math.pi is available in MicroPython
      accuracy = 1 - (value / math.pi)
      return -math.log10(abs(accuracy))




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