Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
From: RoniBarrett@aol.com
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:08:03 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 4/12/00 8:11:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
goodsell@bridgernet.com writes:

<< http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/plouffe.html
 
 There's something a little strange on this page. In the postscript dated
 1/12/97 it mentions an algorithm for computing the nth digit in any base. I
 guess "algorithm" doesn't mean the same thing as "formula", though. Still,
 it may be of interest to the original poster.
  >>
After asking my teacher, he told me that he thinks this is the lookup page he 
love so much. It doesnt calculate the digit, it just finds it in a huge 
database. Since they know something like 10^15 digits now, its unlikely 
someone will ask for a number beyond whats known.

Jeff Barrett
Hybridsoft
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