The present paper on the now partly well known Russian mathematician and "amateur economist" v. Charasoff was originally written in 1987 together with H. Duffner three years after Charasoff's remarkable contribution of 1910 "Das System des Marxismus" (The system of Marxism) had been rediscovered...

Traditional methods of calculating the value of Pi are approximate. This article demonstrates that there is an accurate method for calculating its value to 16 significant digits based on the performance of a computer program in Turbo C 2.0 including formulas resulting from the combination of...