The Pi Page

Here are some random thoughts on the number which has been called "The World's Most Delicious Number less than 5". That quote is not attributed, for obvious reasons.

A mere 50000 Digits of the Famous Transcendental.
A Program in C to compute the Famous Transcendental, and some remarks on making it work with the Borland Turbo C++.
Some Arctangent Formulae for computing the Famous Transcendental.
Some little-known quaint numerical facts about the Famous Transcendental.
Here it is: you saw it here: the most useless formula for computing pi.

I should mention that Project Gutenberg (an index is available) has listed 1250000 digits in a large file, and Jeremy Gilbert has put 2.5 million digits on the shoulders of our groaning Internet. (Which of course presupposes that it is digits that you desire....)

Other places where you can find out about pi are:

Here are some links with some real genuine heavy juicy self-injected MATH:

Peter Borwein
Joerg Arndt (see especially the Cryptic pi related formulas).

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