Re: Compute pi to base 12 using Python?

[Dick Moores]

Bengt Richter wrote at 14:52 4/13/2005:
import sys
def main():
    k, a, b, a1, b1 = 2L, 4L, 1L, 12L, 4L
    while 1:
        p, q, k = k*k, 2L*k+1L, k+1L
        a, b, a1, b1 = a1, b1, p*a+q*a1, p*b+q*b1
        d, d1 = a/b, a1/b1
        while d == d1:
            output(d)
            a, a1 = 10L*(a%b), 10L*(a1%b1)
            d, d1 = a/b, a1/b1
def output(d):
    sys.stdout.write(`int(d)`)
    sys.stdout.flush()
main()
# Reading/writing Python source often gives me the impression of
# reading/writing a poem!
# Layout, indentation, rythm, I like the look and feel!
# What does this tiny program do? It is not a sonnet, even not a
# pi-sonnet, but it surely produces Pi!
It sure does. When I ran it my jaw dropped. I had 7,947 CORRECT digits in 
2 minutes 0 seconds (by my stopwatch)!

Now on to base 12.
Thanks!
Dick Moores
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