- Bellard's formula
Bellard's formula, as used by
PiHex , the now-completeddistributed computing project, is used to calculate the "n"th digit of π inbase 2 . It is a faster version (about 43% faster [ [http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/credits.html PiHex Credits ] ] ) of theBBP formula . Bellard's formula was discovered byFabrice Bellard .Formula
Notes
External links
* [http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/pi/ Fabrice Bellard's PI page]
* [http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/ PiHex web site]
* [http://denistn.mine.nu/pdf2html.php?url=http://oldweb.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/p123.pdf David Bailey, Peter Borwein, and Simon Plouffe's BBP formula ("On the rapid computation of various polylogarithmic constants") (PDF)]
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