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- #! /usr/local/bin/python
-
- # Print digits of pi forever.
- #
- # The algorithm, using Python's 'long' integers ("bignums"), works
- # with continued fractions, and was conceived by Lambert Meertens.
- #
- # See also the ABC Programmer's Handbook, by Geurts, Meertens & Pemberton,
- # published by Prentice-Hall (UK) Ltd., 1990.
-
- import sys
-
- def main():
- k, a, b, a1, b1 = 2L, 4L, 1L, 12L, 4L
- while 1:
- # Next approximation
- p, q, k = k*k, 2L*k+1L, k+1L
- a, b, a1, b1 = a1, b1, p*a+q*a1, p*b+q*b1
- # Print common digits
- d, d1 = a/b, a1/b1
- while d == d1:
- output(d)
- a, a1 = 10L*(a%b), 10L*(a1%b1)
- d, d1 = a/b, a1/b1
-
- def output(d):
- # Use write() to avoid spaces between the digits
- # Use int(d) to avoid a trailing L after each digit
- sys.stdout.write(`int(d)`)
- # Flush so the output is seen immediately
- sys.stdout.flush()
-
- main()
-