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

Subject: Re: Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.
From: "brad" <mrbrad@ll.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:06:24 -0500
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"datajerk" <datajerk@gmail.com> wrote in message > 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?
>


i had a buddy named Qazz (don guse) he used to run pi on an old apple ][ 
when not using it just for the heck of it...not sure how his pi program 
worked..but even with an apple ][ setup... he i think.... did so from the 
late 70's till his passing in 2005....

brad
former sysop lost gonzo bbs

References:
- Computing Pi on the Apple II and //e.
  - From: datajerk <datajerk@gmail.com>

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