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- From: gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk (G.J. McCaughan)
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- Subject: Re: Digits/Prog to compute pi?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.234143.22956@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
- Date: 15 Sep 92 23:41:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep15.090518.13252@sbil.co.uk>, pbond@spitws100.sbil.co.uk (Philip Bond) writes:
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- > Here is PI to around 65,000 places. You can get more if you need it. See
- > the FAQ for details. I generated this list using Mathematica, and checked it
- > against the 1,000,000 places book published by the French Atomic Energy
- > Commission. Let me know if you have any problems reading the email.
- >
- > .
- > .
- > .
- >
- > 701696524755774089164456867771715850058326994340167720215676772406812836656\
- > 526412298243946513319735919970940327593850266955747023181320324371642058614\
- > 103360652453693916005064495306016126782264894243739716671766123104897503188\
- > 573216555498834212180284691252908610148552781527762562375045637576949773433\
- > 684601560772703550962904939248708840628106794362241870474700836884267102255\
- > 830240359984164595112248527263363264511401739524808619463584078375355688562\
- > 231711552094722306543709260679735100056554938122457548372854571179739361575\
- > 616764169289580525729752233855861138832217110736226000000000000000000000000\
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- At what point does it start being inaccurate? Immediately before those 0s? Or
- somewhere else? (I don't believe all those 0s really belong there.)
-
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- Gareth McCaughan Dept. of Pure Mathematics & Mathematical Statistics,
- gjm11@cus.cam.ac.uk Cambridge University, England. [Research student]
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