Most of the current answers assume that they'll get 5 digits accuracy within some number of iterations and this number is hardcoded into the program. My understanding of the question was that the program itself is supposed to figure out when it's got an answer accurate to 5 digits and stop there. On that assumption here's my C# solution. I haven't bothered to minimise the number of characters since there's no way it can compete with some of the answers already out there, so I thought I'd make it readable instead. :)
private static double GetPi()
{
double acc = 1, sign = -1, lastCheck = 0;
for (double div = 3; ; div += 2, sign *= -1)
{
acc += sign / div;
double currPi = acc * 4;
double currCheck = Math.Round(currPi, 5);
if (currCheck == lastCheck)
return currPi;
lastCheck = currCheck;
}
}
