rob pike on Nostr: Wow, Chudnovsky's algorithm converges fast! I put it into ivy (code in the alt text) ...
Wow, Chudnovsky's algorithm converges fast! I put it into ivy (code in the alt text) and the first term alone is good to 10 digits. Each term adds 30+ bits to the precision. Here the argument to chudpi is how many terms to sum.
)get 'chudpi.ivy'
chudpi 0
3.1415926535897342076684535915782983407622
log pi - chudpi 0
-30.4607171517456828366955039144850114298603
log pi - chudpi 10
-357.9935248416118262945083838384929862494035
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