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)