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  2. Chronology of computation of π - Wikipedia

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    Calculated pi to 72 digits, but not all were correct 71: 1706: John Machin [2] 100: 1706: William Jones: Introduced the Greek letter ' π ' 1719: Thomas Fantet de Lagny [2] Calculated 127 decimal places, but not all were correct 112: 1721: Anonymous Calculation made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, giving the

  3. Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe formula - Wikipedia

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    This does not compute the nth decimal digit of π (i.e., in base 10). [3] But another formula discovered by Plouffe in 2022 allows extracting the nth digit of π in decimal. [4] BBP and BBP-inspired algorithms have been used in projects such as PiHex [5] for calculating many digits of π using distributed computing. The existence of this ...

  4. Chudnovsky algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The Chudnovsky algorithm is a fast method for calculating the digits of π, based on Ramanujan's π formulae.Published by the Chudnovsky brothers in 1988, [1] it was used to calculate π to a billion decimal places.

  5. Machin-like formula - Wikipedia

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    In the last term of the Taylor series, however, there's only one digit remaining to be processed. In all of the intervening terms, the number of digits to be processed can be approximated by linear interpolation. Thus the total is given by: The run time is given by:

  6. Calculator added up to fun for a math phobic kid in the 1970s ...

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    The Texas Instruments TI-30 retailed for $24.95 (about $130 today) and operated on a 9-volt battery. It had a red, eight-digit display and offered such functions as percents, constants, roots ...

  7. Pi - Wikipedia

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    The number π (/ p aɪ /; spelled out as "pi") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159, that is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter.It appears in many formulae across mathematics and physics, and some of these formulae are commonly used for defining π, to avoid relying on the definition of the length of a curve.

  8. List of formulae involving π - Wikipedia

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    where C is the circumference of a circle, d is the diameter, and r is the radius.More generally, = where L and w are, respectively, the perimeter and the width of any curve of constant width.

  9. Approximations of π - Wikipedia

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    Super PI by Kanada Laboratory [101] in the University of Tokyo is the program for Microsoft Windows for runs from 16,000 to 33,550,000 digits. It can compute one million digits in 40 minutes, two million digits in 90 minutes and four million digits in 220 minutes on a Pentium 90 MHz. Super PI version 1.9 is available from Super PI 1.9 page.