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Re: Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.

Subject: Re: Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.
From: datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:18:46 -0700 (PDT)
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On Aug 12, 12:36 pm, D Finnigan <dog_...@macgui.com> wrote:
> 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?
>
> > Thanks.
>
> Here's a program which claims to be able to do it in 40 minutes:

...

Thank you for this.  And thanks for including the headers with dates.
I am trying to create a time line and this really helps.

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