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Topic: Calculating Pi
started by: demonk

Posted by demonk on Jul. 26 2001,21:06

This was on /. today, and it got my interest. I've written a perl program that does this exact algorithim. But the webpage I saw this on says that this is to calculate the Nth hex digit of Pi. How in the world do I take what this algorithim spits outs and turn it into something interesting? If I write it directly to a file, I find that the result is accurret only to the 42nd place. Any help and/or ideas would be great.

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This message has been edited by demonk on July 27, 2001 at 04:10 PM

Posted by Dark Knight Bob on Jul. 26 2001,23:48

iono much about perl mabye the progam doesnt have the memory to handle it?

try something like fortran or maple mabye they'd might work better. they're more maths based so u might be able to set the indicie limit to infinity on them

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This message has been edited by Dark Knight Bob on July 27, 2001 at 06:49 PM

Posted by CatKnight on Jul. 29 2001,14:00

I tried plugging that in MATLAB at work just to kill some time and a few trillion CPU cycles on the now 17 node supercomputer (it absorbed my workstaion as another node!). I couldn't get it to output in decimal. I don't know if it's even possible. I think that's the drawback of that formula.

Posted by demonk on Jul. 29 2001,16:38

If I could get the program to output it in HEX then I would be fine. But right now it does everything is decimal, which is why the output isn't valid. I'm probably just going to have to do this in C and make some of my own conversion functions.

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