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    Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]
    Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]
    Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]
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    Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]

    By Greg Fee

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
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      Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula] - Greg Fee

      Project Gutenberg's Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula], by Greg Fee

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]

      Author: Greg Fee

      Posting Date: August 13, 2008 [EBook #682] Release Date: October, 1996

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CATALAN'S CONSTANT ***

      Produced by Greg Fee

      Catalan's Constant [Ramanujan's Formula]

      Catalan constant to 300000 digits computed on September 29, 1996 by using a Sun Ultra-Sparc in 1 day 8 hour 15 min 15 sec 55 hsec. The algorithm used is the standard series for Catalan, accelerated by an Euler transform. The algorithm was implemented using the LiDIA library for computational number theory and it is part of the multiprecision floating-point arithmetic of the package.

      LiDIA is available from

      ftp://crypt1.cs.uni-sb.de/pub/systems/LiDIA/LiDIA-1.2.1.tgz http://www-jb.cs.uni-sb.de/LiDIA/linkhtml/lidia/lidia.html

      The implementation of the algorithm is:

        inline void

        const_catalan (bigfloat & y)

        {

          bigfloat p;

          bigfloat t;

          int i = 1, j = 3; // j = 2*i+1

      // y = t = p = 1/2 divide (y, 1, 2); t.assign (y); p.assign (y);

          // while t is greater than the desired accuracy

          while (!t.is_approx_zero ())

            {

              // do

              // p = p * (i/j);

              // t = (t * i + p) / j;

              // y = y + t;

              // i++; j+=2;

              multiply (p, p, i);

              divide (p, p, j);

              multiply (t, t, i);

              add (t, t, p);

              divide (t, t, j);

              add (y, y, t);

              i++;

              j += 2;

           }

        }

      Here is the output of the program:

      Calculating Catalan's constant to 300000 decimals

      Time required: 1 day 8 hour 15 min 15 sec 55 hsec

      —————————————————————————————————————

      Additional REFERENCES:

      Catalan constant is: sum((-1)**(n+1)/(2*n-1)**2,n=1..infinity) also known under the name beta(2), see ?catalan in Maple for more details.

      The previous record was 200000 digits, also from Thomas Papanikolaou and before that: 100000 digits was due to Greg Fee and Simon Plouffe on August 14, 1996, by using a SGI r10000 Power Challenge with 194 Mhz in 5.63 hours

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