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Sep 17 2019

A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of Javascript

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A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of Javascript
"Big integers" have landed in Javascript, at least in Firefox and Chrome. One of interesting things to do with high precision arithmetic is to calculate digits of π. From scratch, that is, using only addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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