Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

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Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
From: Seth Peelle <beat@drigon.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:59:47 -0700
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Kevin Goodsell wrote:
> 
> There is no known formula for what you are requesting, at least not in a
> base 10 numbers system (there is a hexadecimal digit extraction formula that
> was discovered in the early 90s).

I'm kind of curious -- why would this be possible in base 16 but not
base 10, if pi doesn't "favor" one number system over any other
(AFAIK)?  Or is it that a formula does exist, but simply hasn't been
discovered yet?

BeaT (Seth Peelle)
beat@drigon.com
http://www.drigon.com/~beat

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A89: Re: Pi

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