datajerk wrote:
In the Aug/Sept 1978 issue of Micro Magazine Robert Bishop published an Integer Basic program to compute the first 1000 digits of Pi. It took ~40 hours. Did anybody ever improve on this benchmark?
Bob Bishop's "Apple Pi" article originally published in Micro magazine at:
http://bob-bishop.awardspace.com/ApplePi/index.html The Apple BASIC source code is included in the article.On my Linux box a few years ago, I recoded this algorithm in C and computed at least 100,000 digits of PI. To check my result, I downloaded the value of PI to 1 megadigit from a Gutenberg site and wrote another program to compare the digits downloaded with the digits computed.
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