BBP won't help you compute the decimal digits of pi.

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Eric Kangas <eric.c.kan...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So it looks like I will have to setup a super computer to calculate pi out
> to graham's digit. With the string->list idea I could be able to get up to
> 24 million before my computer crashes due to out of memory. Also I will look
> into the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula, and hope to convert each digit from
> binary to base 10.
>
> On Wednesday, August 15, 2012 11:39:12 PM UTC-7, Robert Bradshaw wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:55 PM, Eric Kangas <eric.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yea crashing due to being out of memory.
>>
>> You could go a bit further by doing the string -> list of ints part
>> piecemeal. The memory usage of 1000 digits is 1000 + epsilon bytes,
>> but a list of 1000 ints is something like 24000+ bytes.
>>
>> > So I will have to convert from
>> > binary just to recall from mth to nth decimal place?
>>
>> The only (known) way to get the mth to nth decimal place is to compute
>> the whole thing to the nth decimal place, as a decimal number, then
>> ignore everything up to the mth.
>>
>> - Robert
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