Thread: looking for quick method to calculate pi

Originally Posted by laserlight

Once you have the value you can get the digits, but yes, I think reading pre-calculated values from file may be easier.

You won't get that many digits from a double. At least not many you can rely on.

In fact, why calculate it at all. A million places of percision is ok, right

If you feel sorry for their server, there are lots of threads on pi, try searching for "pi". Here's one about the plot thickening of 100,000 digits: http://cboard.cprogramming.com/showthread.php?t=58833