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From: "Arthur" <arfa AT clara DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: RE: Calculating Pi
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 18:24:11 -0000
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> Hi,
>
> I read  on someone's website that they calculated Pi, to 96 decimal
> places using djgpp. I tried to do this but only got as far as Double's
> precision limit. Please tell me how to break this limit.

Simple. Don't use doubles. You'll have to write your own routines to handle
very large (and hance also very small) numbers. Don't ask me _how_ to go
about this though, but you might like to have a look at code which handles
64-bit integers under DJGPP (saw it around somewhere).

James Arthur - jaa AT arfa DOT clara DOT net
http://www.arfa.clara.net/james/
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