Creating digits of pi

[brickviking]

(02-06-2018 09:24 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  Why not just convert the hex to decimal?

That's not the easiest thing in the world for an inexperienced user like me. I can certainly convert integers, but converting stuff to the right of the hexadecimal point is quite a bit beyond me; though I do understand it uses powers of two, it uses them in a fractional way, i.e. a^½ (SQR()), a^(¼) (fourth root) and so on. The problem actually goes deeper than this though. Converting a fractional power of 16 is only half the issue, and would still result in multiple decimal digits as a result, not the single digit sequence I was after. Let's consider the second hex digit as an example:

\[ \{ 1/256 .. 255/256 \} \notin \{ 1/16 .. 15/16 \} \]

1/256 = 3.90625E-3, 2/256 = 7.8125E-3 …

That's six digits and a decimal point, just for the first hex decimal.

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