Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
Oh Kind Person, could you point me, your humble adventurer, into the general
direction, of such profound formula?
No seriously, can I have link to a site with the HEX formula???
>
> 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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