Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
From: RoniBarrett@aol.com
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:29:16 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 4/14/00 8:13:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
croop@oregontrail.net writes:

<< No, the base 16 alg they are talking about is unusual in that you do not
 need to calculate the previous digits to get a specific digits.  That is
 why it caused such a stir when it was discovered, because before then
 that was deemed totally impossible.
  >>
I suppose its possible. I dont think that an irrational number in decimal has 
to be irrational in anything else... or it may be a regularly irrational 
number (like 0.01001000100001.....). But this still leaves it hard to find 
any decimal digit, since you would have to use this to find all the digits 
before the one you want, then convert all that into decimal. Happy number 
crunching:-)

Jeff Barrett
Hybridsoft
Co-founder and Director of TI Programming
Hybridsoft.cjb.net
Ronibarrett@aol.com
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