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

[Joel Jaeggli]

gnu bc is a useful tool to have.

it may take a while for the prompt to come back... ;)

1000 places takes around 3 seconds on a 900mhz pIII

joelja

On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Joseph Mack wrote:

> 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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