BBP won't help you compute the decimal digits of pi. On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Eric Kangas <eric.c.kan...@gmail.com> wrote: > So it looks like I will have to setup a super computer to calculate pi out > to graham's digit. With the string->list idea I could be able to get up to > 24 million before my computer crashes due to out of memory. Also I will look > into the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, and hope to convert each digit from > binary to base 10. > > On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:39:12 PM UTC-7, Robert Bradshaw wrote: >> >> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Kangas <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Yea crashing due to being out of memory. >> >> You could go a bit further by doing the string -> list of ints part >> piecemeal. The memory usage of 1000 digits is 1000 + epsilon bytes, >> but a list of 1000 ints is something like 24000+ bytes. >> >> > So I will have to convert from >> > binary just to recall from mth to nth decimal place? >> >> The only (known) way to get the mth to nth decimal place is to compute >> the whole thing to the nth decimal place, as a decimal number, then >> ignore everything up to the mth. >> >> - Robert > > -- > -- > To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > > >
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