Authors
Blanchard Smith
Publication
Publication Details
Volume: 5 Issue: 1
Date
January 1984
Pages
18
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This program can calculate PI to over 8000 decimal places— but don’t hold your breath. It takes over 12 hours for 512 digits! The algorithm uses base 100 arithmetic, storing each digit in one byte of a character string (codes 0-99). It is based on the Taylor series for the arctangent.