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eru
on June 29, 2011
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Rendering floating point numbers is hard
Needs lazy evaluation. Just don't try to look at the whole number at once.
sp332
on June 29, 2011
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Here you go:
http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/pi/pi-alg
Now you can calculate any individual digit of pi without having to find any of the others! Unfortunately, it only works in base 16 or base 2, not base 10.
GregBuchholz
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93...
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BBP-TypeFormula.html
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