Re: Salamin-Brent algorithm

On Jun 21, 6:42 pm, Gerry Myerson <g...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
In article <1182447514.837296.169...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,

dgoldsmith_89 <d.l.goldsm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
if I can just download say like
the first 2^100 binary digits (or 16^25 hex....

Um, 2^100 digits - where would you put them all? Seriously.

Anyway, no one has computed more than a few billion digits
(or bits, or whatever), which is way less than what you want.

Well, I agree with the thought (no one would have
room for 2^100 bits), but actually the computation
of pi has been carried out to one trillion places
(10^12) in both decimal and hexidecimal arithmetic.

http://www.super-computing.org/pi_current.html

as of Oct. 20, 2005.

regards, chip

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