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Nth digit of PI

Rajarshi Ray rajarshi at home.com
Thu Jun 8 10:45:59 EDT 2000 
"Dik T. Winter" wrote:
> 
> In article <bivnjsoq0amb8qjmqtgkbfjsl2df2n2tta at 4ax.com> urner at alumni.princeton.edu writes:
>  > Recent number theory breakthrough:  you can get the
>  > nth digit of PI without doing all the work needed
>  > to compute all the digits up to the nth digit (same
>  > with some other numbers -- not sure if we know all
>  > the relevant criteria as to which).
> 
> I checked the pages and have to make a correction here.  There is no such
> claim.  The only claim is that it can be done without using much memory.
> As one of the referred pages says:
>   "we have not found a faster algorithm, nor have we proven that one does
>   not exist."
> Se essentially the amount of work is still the same, but the memory
> requirents are smaller.

Aw, poor Ullrich. You've shattered his dream of making a fast parallel
calculation of Pi! How dare you!!


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