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Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.
- Subject: Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.
- From: datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 13:23:40 -0700 (PDT)
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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?
Thanks.