"In addition, a simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power."
Someone developed a digit-extraction algorithm (w/o having any n-1 digits) back in 1995:
http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/plouffe.h tm l
A [now-defunct] distributed computing project that set records to compute the five trillionth, forty trillionth, and quadrillionth bit of pi:
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"In addition, a simple formula discovered makes it possible to calculate the Nth binary digit of Pi without computing any of the first N-1 digits, and do the computation with very little computing power."
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Someone developed a digit-extraction algorithm (w/o having any n-1 digits) back in 1995:
http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/plouffe/plouffe.
A [now-defunct] distributed computing project that set records to compute the five trillionth, forty trillionth, and quadrillionth bit of pi:
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/index.htm