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From: olaf@qin.Berkeley.EDU (Olaf Brandt)
Subject: Re: IP gnitaluclaC rof margorP (Was Re: Program for Calculating PI)
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Date: Tue, 9 Apr 1991 20:10:25 GMT

In article <JPC.91Apr9141953@alfa.fct.unl.pt> jpc@fct.unl.pt (Jose Pina Coelho) writes:
>
>Won't work, PI is uncompressible, one billion digits won't fit in a
>diskette.  On the other hand, if you run the program on the cray you'll
>have PI in the cray in a lot less time (after all, diskettes are slow). 

I know I can describe PI exactly with a very short function (short compared
amounts to evaluating it to the desired precision.  PI is very compressible.

olaf