Reflections on Valentin's 2023 Pi day special

[pier4r]

(04-01-2023 06:32 PM)EdS2 Wrote:  I used a fast BBC Basic engine for this - I simply ran the original program for successive values of N. Perhaps there's a cheaper way, as this does seem to be highly redundant.

Wouldn't be possible to keep track of the values as the computation goes?

Further, how much prevision does the BBC basic have? I am not sure but at a certain point the least significant digits may be correct due to computations errors if the precision is not that great.