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August 14th, 2011, 05:33 PM | #1 |
Member Joined: Feb 2008 Posts: 89 Thanks: 0 | irrationals
Greetings: Is there a 'reasonable' way to determine the value of an irrational such as pi, sqrt(2), e, etc. to several decimal places beyond the capacity of a given calculator? I can do so ad infinitum using a series and long division, or via Newton's method but the process is tedious and cumbersome. Thank you. Rich B. |
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August 15th, 2011, 02:12 PM | #2 |
Global Moderator Joined: May 2007 Posts: 6,684 Thanks: 658 | Re: irrationals
Each of the examples given has specific algorithms. There is no general purpose algorithm for irrational numbers.
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