On Sat, Aug 18, 2012 at 9:06 AM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@gmail.com> wrote: > BBP won't help you compute the decimal digits of pi.
And this has nothing to do with pi: knowing some of the hexadecimal digits of a number does not allow you to find some of the decimal digits. Base conversion requires you to know all the digits from the fraction point to the part you are interested in. (Try it yourself: I have a number N whose hexadecimal expansion is *3A*, where I don't know the * digits. What information does this give you about the decimal expansion?) -- Best, Alex -- Alex Ghitza -- Lecturer in Mathematics -- The University of Melbourne http://aghitza.org -- -- 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
