Xref: utzoo comp.compression:318 sci.math:16630 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!abvax!iccgcc!herrickd From: herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com Newsgroups: comp.compression,sci.math Subject: Re: Program for Calculating PI Message-ID: <4223.280485a1@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com> Date: 11 Apr 91 20:49:53 GMT References: <1991Apr3.014832.15021@linus.mitre.org> <1991Apr4.132101.9623@cs.dal.ca> <1991Apr4.150053.29873@linus.mitre.org> Lines: 23 In article <1991Apr4.150053.29873@linus.mitre.org>, bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes: > If one wants the program for the pleasure of computing something, that I > can understand. But why something that's been done thousands of time??? > Why not something new?? How about a program to compute one of the less > famous transcendental constants? > My continued fraction arithmetic rational arithmetic package included a general square root extracter. I never did see a way to start computing the continued fraction for a specific (that's exactly one) transcendental number. Of course pi was the one I was toying with (yes, this part of the activity was pure dilletante). How does one find the greatest integer in (q*pi - p) when the point of the exercise is to compute pi, not know it? Robert Silverman, you say try another transcendental constant. Name one that you find interesting. Change the continued fraction question to that constant. It is the continued fraction expansion of a transcendental that interests me. Not only pi. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com