Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Re: multiple-precision arithmetic Message-ID: <6474@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:16:28 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.6474 Posted: Sat Dec 8 00:16:28 1984 Date-Received: Mon, 10-Dec-84 02:28:41 EST References: <163@faron.UUCP> <732@reed.UUCP>, <6213@mcvax.UUCP> <323@cadovax.UUCP> Organization: Ballistic Research Lab Lines: 6 > ... it seemed possible to write a routine that could run forever, > computing digits for PI. ... I once saw a MACRO-11 routine (quite small) for computing the digits of "e" indefinitely, using only a small amount of storage. I tried it and it worked just fine. Does anyone recall how this is done?