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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: net.math
Subject: Re: multiple-precision arithmetic
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Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 00:16:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec  8 00:16:28 1984
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> ... 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?