You might find the Babbage Difference Engine (designed in 1847-49)
interesting, it is capable of 31 decimal digits of precision. You can
admire it by going to -
http://www.computerhistory.org/babbage/
It is a lovely and fascinating piece of machinery.
At 20:36 -0600 2009/08/08, DIETER ENSSLEN wrote:
>thanks Bill re 355%113
>
>I want to get to the fancy stuff of the mathematicians of the 1800's
>and 1900's and get pi's and gammas and such to lots of significant
>figures.
>
>after all, any person buying an ipod touch or i phone gets pi to by
>16 just by pushing the pi button and for a very few dollars get apps
>with more figures
>
>and then there is wolfram alpha
>
>thanks
>
>dick/dieter
>
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