Directory of Calculation Resources

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Websites on the subject of calculating pi, including research papers, algorithms, etc. Software programs for calculating pi are in a subcategory.

Subcategories

• Software

Resources in This Category

• Archimedes' Approximation of Pi

  http://itech.fgcu.edu/faculty/clindsey/mhf4404/archimedes/archimedes.html
  Describes the method introduced by Archimedes for approximating Pi.

• Bailey on Pi

  http://www.lbl.gov/wonder/bailey.html
  Briefly explains David Bailey's work with NASA's supercomputers and the development of a workable formula to evaluate Pi for any number of decimal places.

• David Bailey's Pi Directory

  http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/pi/index.html
  Articles, papers, programmes, tools, algorithms on the calculation of pi.

• Fabrice Bellard's PI page

  http://bellard.org/pi/
  Showcases digit extraction and FFT multiplication algorithms.

• One Billion Digits of Pi

  http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/index.html
  Ramanujan, modular equations, and approximations.

 

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