Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi


dang it! just guess.  you have a 1 in 10 chance

----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott Dial" <wrath@calc.org>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 12:14 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi


>
> The point of the algorithm is not that it is any quicker... it is that
> it is a explicit formula for pi. It was thought impossible... now they
> don't. Btw, digits in HEX constitute multiple digits in base 10, so to
> find the 10^100th digit is really impossible to predict which hex digit
> contains that base 10 digit.
>
> Groman wrote:
> >
> > People! Have you noticed that the algorithm actually takes about as long
as
> > calculating all previous digits! It's a huge sum function. It will take
> > several years to get 10^100th digit for example(or more??)
> >
> > >
> > > So far, no similar alg has been discovered for decimal.  And there is
no
> > > way to determine what digit the nth digit in hex is, because one hex
> > > digit can represent either 1 or 2 decimal digits.  Guess we'll just
have
> > > to wait until someone discovers an nth digit alg in decimal...
> > >
> > > Cassady Roop
> > >
> > > RoniBarrett@aol.com wrote:
> > > >
> > > > In a message dated 4/14/00 8:13:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > > > croop@oregontrail.net writes:
> > > >
> > > > << No, the base 16 alg they are talking about is unusual in that you
do
> > not
> > > >  need to calculate the previous digits to get a specific digits.
That
> > is
> > > >  why it caused such a stir when it was discovered, because before
then
> > > >  that was deemed totally impossible.
> > > >   >>
> > > > I suppose its possible. I dont think that an irrational number in
> > decimal has
> > > > to be irrational in anything else... or it may be a regularly
irrational
> > > > number (like 0.01001000100001.....). But this still leaves it hard
to
> > find
> > > > any decimal digit, since you would have to use this to find all the
> > digits
> > > > before the one you want, then convert all that into decimal. Happy
> > number
> > > > crunching:-)
> > > >
> > > > Jeff Barrett
> > > > Hybridsoft
> > > > Co-founder and Director of TI Programming
> > > > Hybridsoft.cjb.net
> > > > Ronibarrett@aol.com
> > > > AIM:RoniBarrett
> > > > ICQ:67472242
> > >
>
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