Ebook of Pi
Subtitle: Pi to 1,000,000 places
Publisher: Scott Hemphill
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pasadena, California, United States
Language: eng
Format: Ebook
Number of pages: 197
Description: Pi to 1,000,000 places
Table of contents: title: I computed the digits of pi using Borwein's method.  I used a; title: divide-and-conquer multiply routine, hand coded in 68020 assembly; title: language.  It was capable of multiplying two 1.25+ million digit; title: numbers in about 20 minutes on an HP 9000/370 (a 25MHz 68030?).; title: The computation took a little over three days, at which point I had; title: the answer in *binary*. :-(  The binary to decimal conversion was; title: no simple task.; title: I checked my results by performing the same calculation to 2.5+; title: million digit precision, (9 days) and compared the binaries.  The; title: only independent check has come from David Bailey, whose results; title: agree with mine to at least 1 million digits (probably....  The; title: last 100 digits are the same.); title: Scott