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- From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave Schaumann)
- Newsgroups: comp.programming
- Subject: Re: how to calculate PI
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.060153.2462@organpipe.uug.arizona.edu>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 06:01:53 GMT
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- In-Reply-To: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
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- This discussion just jogged loose a bit of trivia from my brain...
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- Theres a book called _Etudes for Programmers_ by Charles Wetherell.
- Like the title suggests, its got a bunch of good-sized project ideas
- for the idle programmer.
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- One of them concerns calculating PI to many digits. Besides suggestions
- for formulas to use, there is also discussion on implementing very
- high precision numbers, and at least a pointer to a fast multiply
- algorithm.
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- As I recall, each section also includes a short bibliography of
- related works.
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- --
- You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another
- dimension: a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind.
- You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.
- You've just crossed over into... the Twilight Zone.
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