Practice code for calculating pi using Python, RabbitMQ, and IPythonNotebooks.
Pi day with the other day, and I was interested in quickly writing different python scripts to implement the various ways of calculating pi. The basic methods were very easy to write, and are in the notebook Different Ways of Calculating Pi.ipynb.
This seemed really easy, and I wanted to take it a step further, so I decided to add a multiprocessing through a message passing intermediary aspect to calculating pi.
The script rabbitmq-GLS.py is my first use of a message queue and runs the Gregory-Leibniz series for calculating pi, and it makes use of a RabbitMQ server on the local machine.
run_rabbitmq_GLS.py is an easy script to spawn all of the different processing nodes for running the calculation.
This script also uses the decimal library to have more decimal points in the calculation than the float type would provide.