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## Git bisect exercise
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### Motivation
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The motivation for this exercise is to be able to do archaeology with Git on a
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source code where the bug is difficult to see visually. **Finding the offending
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commit is often more than half the debugging**.
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### Background
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The script `get_pi.py` approximates pi using terms of the Nilakantha series. It
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should produce 3.14 but it does not. The script broke at some point and
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produces 3.57 using the last commit:
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```
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$ python get_pi.py
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3.57
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```
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At some point within the 500 first commits, an error was introduced. The only
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thing we know is that the first commit worked correctly.
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### Your task
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Clone or fork this repository and use `git bisect` to find the commit which
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broke the computation.
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