This page contains excerpts from the forward to the file,
"pimil10.txt" and is being presented here simply for the sake
of allowing you to understand what this file is about without
having to download ALL 1,424,517 bytes of the complete file!
— The Starman.

[Note: The text below says that there are "four blank lines"
between each group of 1,000 digits, but there are actually
ONLY THREE blank lines separating them.]

 ************The Project Gutenberg Etext of the number Pi*******
 ******This file should be named pimil10.txt or pimil10.zip*****
 **This etext is officially being released on January 1, 1993.**

 Corrected EDITIONS of our etexts get a new NUMBER, name11.txt.
 VERSIONS based on separate sources get new LETTER, name10a.txt.

 These digits came from Scott Hemphill (see forwarded message).

 The file should fit uncompressed on a 1.44M floppy, is a million
 and a quarter digits of Pi.  We are also working on one billion.
 The tail has also been checked against the 400 million digits we
 have already received from Mr. Kanada of Japan, and we also hope
 to check against the figures we expect from the Chud[n]ovsky Bros.

 ***Forwarded Messages From Our Original Source*** 

I computed the digits of pi using Borwein's method. I used a divide-
and-conquer multiply routine, hand coded in 68020 assembly language.
It was capable of multiplying two 1.25+ million digit numbers in about
20 minutes on an HP 9000/370 (a 25MHz 68030?). The computation took a
little over three days, at which point I had the answer in *binary*.
:-(  The binary to decimal conversion was no simple task. 

I checked my results by performing the same calculation to 2.5+ million
digit precision, (9 days) and compared the binaries.  The only independent
check has come from David Bailey, whose results agree with mine to at least
1 million digits (probably.... AND the last 100 digits are the same.) 

 Scott
 --
 Scott Hemphill hemphill@csvax.cs.caltech.edu  
 ...!ames!elroy!cit-vax!hemphill
 ***End of Forwarded Messages***


 *****The Project Gutenberg Etext of the number Pi***** 

 The digits are arranged in groups of 1,000 in an array 
 of five sets of ten digits per line in twenty lines to 
 a screen with four blank lines between groups of 1,000
 so search programs such as LIST can be used to scan in 
 page mode keeping the groups of 1,000 screen centered.
  
 While we cannot guarantee accuracy, these figures have
 been compared on several occasions with others and are
 apparently in agreement.  However, remember that there
 is a possibility of transmission and other errors.
 

 3. 

 1415926535 8979323846 2643383279 5028841971 6939937510
 5820974944 5923078164 0628620899 8628034825 3421170679
 8214808651 3282306647 0938446095 5058223172 5359408128
 4811174502 8410270193 8521105559 6446229489 5493038196
 4428810975 6659334461 2847564823 3786783165 2712019091
 4564856692 3460348610 4543266482 1339360726 0249141273
 7245870066 0631558817 4881520920 9628292540 9171536436
 7892590360 0113305305 4882046652 1384146951 9415116094
 3305727036 5759591953 0921861173 8193261179 3105118548
 0744623799 6274956735 1885752724 8912279381 8301194912
 9833673362 4406566430 8602139494 6395224737 1907021798
 6094370277 0539217176 2931767523 8467481846 7669405132
 0005681271 4526356082 7785771342 7577896091 7363717872
 1468440901 2249534301 4654958537 1050792279 6892589235
 4201995611 2129021960 8640344181 5981362977 4771309960
 5187072113 4999999837 2978049951 0597317328 1609631859
 5024459455 3469083026 4252230825 3344685035 2619311881
 7101000313 7838752886 5875332083 8142061717 7669147303
 5982534904 2875546873 1159562863 8823537875 9375195778
 1857780532 1712268066 1300192787 6611195909 2164201989



 ETC. ETC. ETC.    . . . . . . .


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