Nilakantha is an algorithm for calculating pi, and this implementation is a simple multi-threaded console app. I know, very fancy.

Nice little loading bar, and will continuously update the approximation as it converges on Pi.

Dependencies:

Requires GMP (https://gmplib.org/) - the Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library.

Run make install-deps from command line to try installing it using the apt package manager.

Building The Code:

Use make in the command line to build Nila - the executable.

Running the Code:

Use ./Nila in the console to run. Nila accepts one argument - the number of working threads. Default is 1 thread.

# Runs Nila using 10 working threads - probably shouldn't use more threads than your machine is capable of.
./Nila 10
# Starting Nila with 10 Threads
# Iteration: 391125 of 1e+08
# [>                                                                     ] 0 %
# Pi: 3.1415926535897932384626395319029935820014106877588426296528817871294269909633926426581827746218309629