New Information About the Constant Pi
It has apparently been discovered that digits of pi can be computed in
base 16 arithmetic on an individual basis, without computing the
previous digits of the expansion. But not in base ten. Check out the
following:
New information about pi
(the discoverers' paper and Fortran program)--compute digits of pi
without computing the preceding digits!
further
notes about the pi discovery by Steven Finch -Rs. Calkin
(Favorite
Mathematical Constants pages)