From: Robert Dober <robert.dober@...>
Date: 2009-05-01T06:16:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Digits of Pi (#202)

On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Todd Benson <caduceass@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Robert Dober <robert.dober@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:02 AM, Jay Anderson <horndude77@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The good new is that I chose the correct algorithm from the beginning.
>> The bad news is that I was waaaay to stupid to implement it, well
>> done.
>> BTW I tested your result, it seems to be correct  :).
>> Cheers
>
> Jay's version seemed to work fine.  It took about 5 minutes on my
> machine for 100_000.
>
> I haven't verified the digits yet, though.
I have ;)

Now that I learnt from Jay *not* to use BigDecimal :) I have
implemented Chen-Lih's machin formula,
last on this page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machin-like_formula

But the speed gain is minimal 20~30% so that is definitely not worth
posting a *stolen* solution with this monster expression ;)
It run 70s instead of 97s (yes I have top notch hardware ;) for 100_000 digits.

Cheers
Robert

>
> Todd
>
>



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