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Picking off more pieces of pi

A math student has determined the five-trillionth binary digit of the number pi.

 

References:

Additional information about calculating individual binary digits of pi is available at http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex.

 

Further Readings:

Peterson, I. 1998. Pick a digit, any digit. Science News Online (Feb. 28).

______. 1997. An enormous chunk of pi. Science News 152(Aug. 9):92.

______. 1995. A new formula for picking off pieces of pi. Science News 148(Oct. 28):279.

 

Sources:

Colin Percival
Department of Mathematics
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Web site: http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/colin.html

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 16, October 17, 1998, p. 255.
Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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