pi just may be an irrational number

This article:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2146295.stm

contains this rather amazing news:

> David Bailey and Canadian mathematicians Peter Borewin and Simon
> Plouffe... wrote a computer program that calculates an arbitrary
> digit of pi without calculating any of the preceding digits -
> something that was thought impossible.

( Wow! That's something! I would have thought it impossible!)

- jeff

--- In metatuning@y..., "X. J. Scott" <xjscott@e...> wrote:
>
> This article:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2146295.stm
>
> contains this rather amazing news:
>
> > David Bailey and Canadian mathematicians Peter Borewin and Simon
> > Plouffe... wrote a computer program that calculates an arbitrary
> > digit of pi without calculating any of the preceding digits -
> > something that was thought impossible.
>
> ( Wow! That's something! I would have thought it impossible!)
>
> - jeff

that's six-year-old news, jeff. keep an eye on this page, which i
found from john starrett's:

http://pauillac.inria.fr/algo/bsolve/constant/constant.html

thanks for the link, though!