[CLN-list] Question on algorithm for pi

[Joerg Arndt]

text:
http://www.jjj.de/fxt/#fxtbook

code for various AGM type algorithms (no binsplit):
http://www.jjj.de/hfloat/
(you'll need the fxt package of the first link)

Note hfloat is an experimental package,
it has neither the speed nor the quality of CLN/Ginac


* Barry Levin <vegetariancannibal at gmail.com> [Jun 07. 2006 10:57]:
> I am not a programmer (yet), and I am doing a project for a Calculus class on 
> the derivation of pi. Since this software managed to produce a large amount 
> of digits for me, and although the code is open, I cannot see what it does 
> due to my own lack of skills, I would like to know how it calculates pi.
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