Pi: Less Random Than We Thought

Major Variola (ret) mv at cdc.gov
Sun May 8 17:25:15 PDT 2005


At 03:55 PM 5/6/05 -0400, Tyler Durden wrote:
>Yes, but only provided the universe lasts long enough for those digits
to be
>computed!
>-TD

Actually, a few years ago someone discovered an algorithm for the Nth
(hex) digit of Pi
which doesn't require computing all the previous digits.  Mind blowing.





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