Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
I'll have to look for it...
Here's a good one:
http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/plouffe.html
There's something a little strange on this page. In the postscript dated
1/12/97 it mentions an algorithm for computing the nth digit in any base. I
guess "algorithm" doesn't mean the same thing as "formula", though. Still,
it may be of interest to the original poster.
Also, I was a little off on the timing of this discovery. It was 1995.
-Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: Groman <groman@thehelm.com>
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Date: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 5:33 PM
Subject: 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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