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nitacku
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Here is a teaser, but not one that I have an answer to.
Create a program to extract the nth digit of pi given the positive integer n.
I have tried to find programs on the internet to do this, but apparently it's still one of the words unsolved mysteries.
There does exist a certain method using numbers of base 16, but I am unable to understand the process by which it works in order to turn it into a program. |
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WikiGuru
ADOS (Attention deficit... Oh! Shiny!)
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You could calculate pi to the nth digit then display the nth digit
Oh, btw, it's not April 1 here yet. You should make it so that it changes according to the time zones we're accessing it from if that was your intention.
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DarkerLine
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| I'm pretty sure there's no good way to calculate the Nth decimal digit ("good" here means "without calculating the previous N-1"). |
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