Re: A Formula for Pi

In article <ac4f55cd-2633-4aa8-bd35-c515d3cbf33c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Mensanator <mensanator@xxxxxxx> wrote:
but used the term to term ratio I pointed out above. If so, it should
be a little over

"Starnge, the line went dead just as Professor Press
was about to reveal the secret formula."

Okay, I'm confused, but that is not unusual.

Well, I was confused also at the time (I hope you saw my apology).

The paragraph I refered to simply ended abrutly, like a
hack plot device you might see in a Sherlock Holmes story.
Looking at the message tree, Micheal Press was in bold
letters and it occured to me that "Professor Press" would
be the perfect hack name to use in relation to the hack
"secret formula".

Forgetting for the moment that I wasn't replying to him.

It was one of those spur of the moment things that seems
lame once you have to explain it. The subconscience isn't
nearly as clever as people like to think.

Ah, I never noticed that I deleted the last part of the paragraph by
mistake. That paragraph should have read

I hope you did not use the factorial function in your implementation,
but used the term to term ratio I pointed out above. If so, it should
be a little over .28 seconds for this series (3.6 times the Machin
series).

If coded the way I think it would be, the Machin series takes two
divisions and an addition for each term. The series I gave takes one
multiplication, one division, and an addition for each term. So I
figured that term for term, the series I gave was at least as fast,
but it needed 3.6 times as many terms. Therefore, I estimated .28
seconds.

Sorry for the typo.

Rob Johnson <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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