Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

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Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
From: "Kevin Goodsell" <goodsell@bridgernet.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:05:21 -0600
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


My understanding is that it had been believed to be impossible until this
base 16 formula was discovered. Since then, there's no reason to believe
that it's impossible in base 10, but nobody knows the formula in base 10 if
it does exist.

-Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Peelle <beat@drigon.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi


>
>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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