[VA] SRC #016 - Pi Day 2024 Special

[DavidM]

(03-28-2024 11:37 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  Come to think about it, your calc's multi-precision capabilities would be ideal to have a go at the 4th Appearances sub-challenge, which it's been left orphaned so far. You can try and get an appearance of a \(\pi\)'s prefix of some non-trivial length in a trig, log, or exponential irrational number, such as the often-neglected e, for instance ?

I actually did do a few runs with Appearance 4, but only using the square root method of your example. Then Appearance 6 caught my attention, and I never cycled back to experiment with other options. When time permits I'll try that again. So far, I've identified 171 instances of at least "3141592" using 1000 for the DIGITS setting. I've got some gaps in the ranges of testing, though.

(03-28-2024 11:37 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  ...they surely took a sizable amount of time (and batteries!) to obtain.

No worries there, as I was running on USB power for the real 50g tests.