Date: Mar 12, 2011 10:35 AM
Author: rossum
Subject: Re: Pi as binary number

On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 21:12:14 -0800, Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com>
wrote:

>There is also an algorithm which will let you calculate any particular
>digit in the hex representation of pi without needing to calculate the
>ones that come before it.
The Bailey?Borwein?Plouffe formula.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey?Borwein?Plouffe_formula for
intro and references.

rossum