pi_spigot

pi_spigot, a MATLAB code which prints out any number of decimal digits of pi.

Licensing:

The computer code and data files made available on this web page are distributed under the MIT license

Languages:

pi_spigot is available in a MATLAB version and a Python version.

Related Data and Programs:

e_spigot, a MATLAB code which produces any number of digits of the decimal expansion of e.

pi_spigot_test

Author:

Original Pascal program by Simeon Simeonov. Matlab version by John Burkardt

Reference:

• Stanley Rabinowitz, Stan Wagon,
  A spigot algorithm for the digits of pi,
  American Mathematical Monthly,
  Volume 102, Number 3, pages 195-203, March 1995.

Source Code:

• pi_101.m, prints the first 101 decimal digits of pi.
• pi_spigot.m, computes and prints N digits of pi.