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From: weverka@spot.Colorado.EDU (Robert T. Weverka)
Subject: Re: Program for Calculating PI
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In article <AVENGER.91Apr2185942@wpi.WPI.EDU> avenger@wpi.WPI.EDU (Samuel Joseph Pullara) writes:
>Could someone please send me a program that will calculate PI to any
>arbitrary number of digits?  Thanks in advance...
>
Since you didn`t specify language, how about Mathematica?
example program for calculating Pi to 1 billion digits (Note will run on any
machine which runs Mathematica, from the Mac to the Cray
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In[1]:= N[Pi,1000000000]

Out[1]= 3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751058209749445923078\

>    164062862089986280348253421170679821480865132823066470938446095505822317\

>    253594081284811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819644288109756\

>    659334461284756482337867831652712019091456485669234603486104543266482133\

>    936072602491412737245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643678925\

>    903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094330572703657595919530921861\

>    173819326117931051185480744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491\

>    298336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798609437027705392171762\

>    931767523846748184676694051320005681271452635608277857713427577896091736\

>    371787214684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235420199561121290\

>    219608640344181598136297747713099605187072113499999983729780499510597317\

>    328160963185950244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881710100031\
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