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20 million digits of pi in under a minute with Julia

I recently discovered a relatively obscure algorithm for calculating the digits of pi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss–Legendre_algorithm. Well, at least obscure compared to Chudnovsky's. Wikipedia notes that it is "memory-intensive" but is it really? Let's compare to the MPFR pi function:

function gauss_legendre(prec)
    setprecision(BigFloat, prec, base=10)
    GC.enable(false)
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Last active July 22, 2024 18:14
Bash keyboard shortcuts

Bash Shortcuts

visual cheetsheet

Moving

command description
ctrl + a Goto BEGINNING of command line