Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
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Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
naw, just program it on a quantum computer and have your answer in seconds :
)
-Dan
thedew@usit.net
----- Original Message -----
From: "Groman" <groman@thehelm.com>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 1:19 AM
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
>
> People! Have you noticed that the algorithm actually takes about as long a
s
> 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 d
o
> 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 irration
al
> > > 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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