From: Charles Krug <charles AT mail DOT pentek DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Calculating Pi
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 15:07:10 -0500
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Arthur wrote:

> > 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.

Bob Stout's Snippets page:

www.snippets.org

Has a section entitled, "Various ways of computing PI to ridiculous lengths,"
which demonstrate the kinds of techniques you need for that sort of thing.

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Charles Krug, Jr.
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Pentek Corp
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Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458