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PI
After watching the movie PI, I found an interest in PI. And no, I haven't gone crazy, yet. The PiHex project looks pretty dang interesting by calculating upwards of a quadrillion digits of PI taking around 1.5 million CPU hours.
This is a file of PI computed to a million decimal places using Borwein's Quartically Convergent Algorithm. I computed it in about 15 minutes with an arbitrary precision C++ number library.
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PIPI
Saturday, June 12, 2004 by digitalpeer, updated Friday, August 6, 2004
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pi_to_a_million.txt, uploaded Tuesday, July 27, 2004This is a file of PI computed to a million decimal places using Borwein's Quartically Convergent Algorithm. I computed it in about 15 minutes with an arbitrary precision C++ number library.
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