[Edu-sig] digits of pi

[kirby urner]

Also, Art, I wonder if you've heard anything about Pohlke's Theorem.
I looked it up and it seemed like a projective geometry thing.  I
mentioned on math-teach that I'd be running it by you (but of course
feel free to pass -- I did, for now (busy with hexapents etc.)):
http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=4947994

Kirby

On 7/29/06, kirby urner <kirby.urner at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/28/06, John Zelle <john.zelle at wartburg.edu> wrote:
> > Here's a generator I coded up based on a paper by Gibbons:
> >    http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/jeremy.gibbons/publications/spigot.pdf
>
> << SNIP >>
> > # pi.py -- imlementation of Gibbons' spigot algorithm for pi
> > #  John Zelle 4-5-06
>
> I made note of this post by John Zelle over on the Math Forum:
> http://mathforum.org/kb/message.jspa?messageID=4968441
>
> Don't be alarmed that the Python source has all the whitespace sucked
> away, an artifact of the web display program.  The underlying
> plaintext has it right (optional view) plus I link back to here, where
> Python Mailman does a better job.
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/index.html
>
> Kirby
>