Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!kddlab!cs.titech!wnoc-tyo-news!ascwide!ascgw!fgw2!fgw!pfrad!ace!melby From: melby@daffy.yk.Fujitsu.CO.JP (John B. Melby) Newsgroups: comp.compression Subject: Re: IP gnitaluclaC rof margorP (Was Re: Program for Calculating PI) Message-ID: Date: 8 Apr 91 20:02:58 GMT References: <28916@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1991Apr6.103501.27193@netcom.COM> Sender: news@ace.yk.fujitsu.co.jp Organization: Open Systems Dept. Div. 2 Sect. 3, FUJITSU LTD. Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: daffy In-reply-to: wlod@netcom.COM's message of 6 Apr 91 19:35:01 JST >>Could someone please send me a program that will print the digits >>of PI in reverse order? Thanks in advance ... > >Any program will do assuming that you're satisfied with one line of digits. >Just print out a line of any junk. Then many printers will print [...] If I recall correctly, any program that spews out an arbitrary line of numbers will be printing a series of digits from pi, and by the same token, will also be printing a series of digits from pi backwards. (Does anyone have a proof of this?) I think this is also the case for non-integral square roots of integers. (Why is this pi stuff in comp.compression, anyway? Is it supposed to show how one can compress a transcendental expansion of infinite length into a program that is written in Obfuscated C? :-) ) ----- John B. Melby Fujitsu Limited, Machida, Japan melby%yk.fujitsu.co.jp@uunet