Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
So far, no similar alg has been discovered for decimal. And there is no
way to determine what digit the nth digit in hex is, because one hex
digit can represent either 1 or 2 decimal digits. Guess we'll just have
to wait until someone discovers an nth digit alg in decimal...
Cassady Roop
RoniBarrett@aol.com wrote:
>
> 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
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