Pi

Authors

Blanchard Smith

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Publication Details

Volume: 5 Issue: 1

Date

January 1984

Pages

18

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.

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