Creating digits of pi

[Valentin Albillo]

(02-06-2018 01:38 AM)Joe Horn Wrote:  There *is* a way of directly calculating the Nth digit of pi (without generating all the previous digits) but only in hex.

Nope. It also works for base 2 as well.

Quote: Nobody to date has discovered a way of doing it for pi in base 10.

It can be proved that there's no formula in base 10 for Pi like the one for bases 16 and 2. There are base-10 formulas for many other constants but not for Pi.

See A compendium of BBP-type formulas.

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