Accessing the value of pi in ROOT

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Hi

I can’t access the value of pi in root though many tutorials/examples show its active use. I have also tried using TMath::pi

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Hi,
in root you should use TMath::Pi(),

Cheers,
Stefano

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I saw in many examples which used the constant simply by writing ‘pi’. Can you explain that in case?

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In that screenshot of yours you do not seem to be in a ROOT session, it looks more like a cmd.exe session.

Can you maybe point us to such example?

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yes I had accidentally uploaded the wrong pic, I have corrected it now

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Can you point one of this example ? In such examples the variable pi should defined somewhere. Have a close look at the code.

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The same point is discussed in documentation of Formula that how some names have their const values defined and can not be changed

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Again can you point one of the examples where “pi” is used ? thanks.

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This is a snip from the same as mentioned
Please mind the last line
However I cannot yet find the use of pi in any of the examples.

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This was apparently taken from
https://root.cern.ch/doc/master/classTFormula.html
, and it says the following below:

Formula may contain constants, eg:

  • sqrt2
  • e
  • pi
  • ln10
  • infinity

, where by “Formula” the authors mean “a TFormula class object”. However, if you simply right pi in the ROOT prompt, this is not considered a TFormula class object.

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yeah, apparently that would mean that TFormula:: pi would give us the value, right?

I should mention that one way of doing your work is define
auto pi = TMath::Pi(), but that is a different matter altogether.

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No, the pi is not a member function of TFormula.

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Then how does the page suggest we use it?
There are no clear examples

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You can e.g. construct a TF1 object using operations/functions (including the pi) defined in TFormula, for example:

root [0] TF1 *f1 = new TF1("f1", "x*pi" , 0, 5) // pi comes from TFormula
root [1] f1->Draw()
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root [0] auto f1 = new TF2("f2", "2*pi*sqrt(x/y)", 1, 5, 1, 5);
root [1] f2->Draw("surf2")
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