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- From: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
- Subject: Looking for fast methods of computing PI
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.025820.4593@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Sender: kaufman@eecs.nwu.edu (Michael L. Kaufman)
- Organization: EECS Department, Northwestern University
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 02:58:20 GMT
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- I read an article a few years ago in some magazine (I think it was Discover)
- that talked about two people who had come up with a fast way of computing PI.
- The magazine didn't give the method and I lost it before I could write the
- author. As I recall, it involved using some intermediate values in computing
- more digits, and more intermediate values. (I might be misremembering this.)
- Anyhow, any helppl on the subject would be appreciated.
-
- Thanks, Michael
-
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- | lost in time - like tears in rain. Time to die. Roy Batty
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