Imagine the excitement, then disappointment that early mathamaticians had when they calcuated pi longhand and found
that decimal places 762 thru 767 were all “9”. They were probably tearing thier hair out when the discovered that the place 768 was “8”.
Murphydog, according to this site, that many digits of pi weren’t calculated until 1947, and by then it was done with a computer. The most digits calculated by hand was 620 in 1946 (apparently by the same guy).
-b
Bryanmcc, betcha ol’ Murphydog was making a joke!
Whoosh.
No joke. I have a QB program that will calculate pi to any number of decimal places. It’s free but it’s a dos program. You need
QBasic to run it. [EMAIL=ronfrancis@att.net]Request it if anybody wants it.
Yes, he calculated it by hand 3 times, got different answers each time and it turned out his first answer was the closest anyway.
Talk about someone with too much time on their hands.
-b