vpa_test
vpa_test,
an Octave code which
uses the Symbolic package to perform high precision computations.
Evaluating a symbolic variable means creating a representation of
its value, to a given number of digits, as a floating point number.
Licensing:
The information on this web page is distributed under the MIT license.
Languages:
vpa_test is available in
a MATLAB version and
an Octave version.
Reference:
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David Bailey, Jonathan Borwein,
Experimental Mathematics: Examples, Methods and Implications,
Notices of the American Mathematical Society,
Volume 52, Number 5, pages 502-514.
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David Bailey, Karthik Jeyabalan, Xiaoye Li,
A Comparison of Three High-Precision Quadrature Schemes,
Experimental Mathematics,
Volume 14, Number 3, pages 317-329.
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Cleve Moler,
Cleve's Corner: Computing Pi,
MATLAB News and Notes,
February 2012.
Source Code:
computing_pi is a collection of three functions discussed by
Cleve Moler for computing pi to many digits.
Last modified on 03 July 2023.