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Subject:      50 billionth hexadecimal digits of pi
From:         bellard@lavieille.irisa.fr (Fabrice Bellard)
Date:         1996/07/06
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Organization: IRISA, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, FRANCE
Newsgroups:   sci.math


This might be useful ;-)

The 50 billionth (50*10^9) hexadecimal digits of PI are :

1A10A49B3E2B82A4404F9193AD4EB6

This calculus has been done and verified during the idle time of eight
workstations. I have used the results of the paper "On the rapid computation
of various polylogarithmic constants" by David Bailey, Peter Borwein and
Simon Plouffe. 

--
Fabrice Bellard - http://www.polytechnique.fr/poly/~bellard

 and just received on October 7 is this news from sci.math

the hexadecimal digits of Pi from rank 100 billion would be.

>9C381872D27596F81D0E48B95A6C46
>
>This calculus has been done and verified during the idle time of nine
>workstations. I have used the results of the paper "On the rapid computation
>of various polylogarithmic constants" by David Bailey, Peter Borwein and
>Simon Plouffe.
>
>--
>Fabrice Bellard - Fabrice.Bellard@enst.fr