howto calculate pi to large (eg 10^6) places

[Joseph Mack]

egan at sense.net wrote:
> 
> > How do you do a calculation to 10^6 places on a 32 bit machine?

> echo "scale=1000000;a(1)*4" | bc -l

:-) I didn't know you could do this (still waiting for the prompt to return).

Joe

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