Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Eric Kangas
So it looks like I will have to setup a super computer to calculate pi out to graham's digit. With the string-list idea I could be able to get up to 24 million before my computer crashes due to out of memory. Also I will look into the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, and hope to convert each

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Christophe BAL
Hello, have you see this page : http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PiDigits.html ? -- -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Robert Bradshaw
BBP won't help you compute the decimal digits of pi. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Eric Kangas eric.c.kan...@gmail.com wrote: So it looks like I will have to setup a super computer to calculate pi out to graham's digit. With the string-list idea I could be able to get up to 24 million

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Alex Ghitza
On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Robert Bradshaw rober...@gmail.com wrote: BBP won't help you compute the decimal digits of pi. And this has nothing to do with pi: knowing some of the hexadecimal digits of a number does not allow you to find some of the decimal digits. Base conversion requires

Re: [sage-support] Calling up pi to nth decimal place.

2012-08-17 Thread Christophe BAL
Sorry for the link, indeed I not really read the page. Indeed, there is one algorithm for the 2 base case : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula. I don't know any kind of this algorithm for the 10 base case. I really think that your question will need a