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Pi Day
Happy Pi Day! This day brings back to my high school days during which I found a library book explaining ways to calculate pi and programmed a couple of them on an Apple II.
Decades later, I tried that again in Processing (code is on GitHub), which looks nice visually:

But I like how the code looks in Gauche Scheme (code also on GitHub)
(define (pi radius)
(let f ((inside 0)
(total 0))
(print (* 4.0 (/ inside (+ 0.000000001 total))))
(if (incircle? (random radius) (random radius) radius)
(f (+ 1 inside) (+ 1 total))
(f inside (+ 1 total)))))
(define (random range)
(- (* (random-real) (+ range range)) range))
(define (incircle? x y radius)
(< (+ (square x) (square y)) (square radius)))