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Re: Re: Re (tilly) 2: the secret of PI

by jmcnamara (Monsignor)
on May 04, 2001 at 18:46 UTC ( [id://77963]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re (tilly) 2: the secret of PI
in thread the secret of PI


Out of interest, how many digits are required to generate "perl"?

John.
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Re (tilly) 5: the secret of PI
by tilly (Archbishop) on May 04, 2001 at 23:03 UTC
    Note that since 26 is not divisible by 10, the characters will change dramatically with each new digit. So perl will appear at some point, then disappear when you add one more digit.

    (This calculation is not the same as working out what PI is in base 26. To do that you would need to rewrite the code to use Math::Fleximal and base 26 calculations everywhere.)

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