Creating digits of pi

[toml_12953]

(05-12-2018 01:42 AM)Gerson W. Barbosa Wrote:  The 12/25 factor to determine the required number of terms may not be exact. I expected it to be 1/2 from the first tests, but I cannot confirm it to be correct the thousand-digit evaluation which is possible in Decimal BASIC.

If you want to maintain compatibility with ANSI BASIC and possibly future versions of Decimal BASIC, change
PRINT left$(p$,2);
to
PRINT p$(1:2);
and
PRINT mid$(p$,i,1);
to
PRINT p$(i:i);

left$, right$ and mid$ aren't in the ANSI standard and may go away in future versions of Decimal BASIC.