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From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
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Subject: Re: PI
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Date: 15 Dec 90 14:24:45 GMT
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In article <9554@ncar.ucar.edu>, gary@ncar.ucar.EDU (Gary Strand) writes:
> > "brian" (brpleshek@miavx0.ham.muohio.edu)
 
> > DOES ANYONE HAVE AN ALGORITHEM TO CALCULATE PI TO THE NTH DECIMAL
 
>   Unless you've got a Cray and some very sophisticated algorithms, I don't
>   think you would get past the accuracy of your machine, in a timely fashion.

Not so, if you mean the "built-in" accuracy.  Getting quite a few thousand
digits is no real problem.  You do need good integer arithmetic algorithms.
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