Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
People! Have you noticed that the algorithm actually takes about as long as
calculating all previous digits! It's a huge sum function. It will take
several years to get 10^100th digit for example(or more??)
>
> 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
> > Hybridsoft.cjb.net
> > Ronibarrett@aol.com
> > AIM:RoniBarrett
> > ICQ:67472242
>
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