Creating digits of pi

[Gerson W. Barbosa]

(02-12-2018 01:38 AM)Mike (Stgt) Wrote:  BTW, 1000 decimals in 10 minutes on an HP-49, that gives everyone the chance to keep count of it.

Really fast (and compact), 5 seconds on the emulator!

For real fun, I would try a 2500-year-old algorithm (with a small adjustment for speed) on my 50g. No problem waiting three hours for the glorious thousand digits :-)

http://www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/...443#189221

There is also a 4-minute alternative (certainly more than 10 minutes on the 49G). Both programs require the LongFloat library, though.