pi_spigot

pi_spigot, an Octave code which prints any number of decimal digits of pi.

Licensing:

The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.

Languages:

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

Related Data and Programs:

pi_spigot_test

e_spigot, an Octave code which produces any number of digits of the decimal expansion of e.

Author:

Original Pascal program by Simeon Simeonov. Octave 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.