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- From: seal@leonardo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (David Seal)
- Subject: math programs with configurable or arbitrary floating point accuracy
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- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 17:49:48 GMT
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- Having been duly inspired by an episode of northern exposure i tried
- fiddling with ramanujan's and borwein and borwein's formulas for
- computing pi on my mac. however, the floating point accuracy
- for MATLAB (which i was using) isn't settable and i can't get past
- the sixteenth decimal place or so. other mac programs or ways of computing
- pi? thanks.
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- ds
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