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Found it here http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~manuel/obfuscate/pi.c That's awesome.

There's a lot of talk about scalable code floating around, but it's rare to see anything as scalable as this code. Do you want more precision in your pi approximation? Then you literally scale the code up. There's few people who can truly claim to have written scalable code like that.

Speaking of "scalable code", there is another interesting obfuscated piece of code that can scale itself. akari.c[1] is an obfuscated ASCII art downsampler.

The neat thing is that the program itself is ASCII art, and downscaling the program source code will generate valid programs for 3 iterations![2]

[1] http://www.ioccc.org/2011/akari/akari.c [2] http://www.ioccc.org/2011/akari/hint.html

Yup--that's a great one. And it too is by Brian Westley...

*its own