FORTRAN 77 on PDP-11

[Kevin Handy]

Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

>Hi
> For those that are interested in such things, they
>have found a formula to calculate any digits of
>PI. The only problem seems to be that it can only
>do this for the Hexadecimal digits and not the
>decimal digits. They are still looking for an equation
>that will do it for decimal digits.
> This can be used to verify ones PI calculations.
>I saw the formula in a Science News about 2 years ago.
>Dwight
>
>  
>

Look at this article for more information on this.

http://www.sciencenews.org/pages/sn_arc98/2_28_98/mathland.htm

You can calculate any hexidecimal digit of pi, without
the need to calculate any other digit.