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// Implements the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe algorithm to find the hexadecimal
// digits of pi.
//
// http://crd.lbl.gov/~dhbailey/
setPrecision[100]
pi = 0
for k = 0 to 100
{
k8 = 8k
term = 4/(k8 +1) - 2/(k8 + 4) - 1/(k8 + 5) - 1/(k8 + 6)
pi = pi + 16^-k term
println["$term\t" + 1. * pi]
}
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