''' This implimentation is a heavily modified fixed point implimentation of BBP_formula for calculating the nth position of pi. The original hosted at: http://en.literateprograms.org/Pi_with_the_BBP_formula_(Python) # Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining # a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the # "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including # without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, # distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to # permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to # the following conditions: # # The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be # included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. # # THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, # EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF # MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. # IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY # CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, # TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE # SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. Modifications: 1.Once the nth digit is selected the number of digits of working precision is caluclated to ensure that the 14 Hexidecimal representation of that region is accurate. This was found eimperically to be int((math.log10(n//1000))+18). This was found by searching for a value of working precision for the n = 0 and n = 1 then n was increased untill the result was less precise, therefore increased again this was repeated for increasing n and an effective fit was found between n and the working precision value. 2. The while loop to evaluate whether the series has convergered has be replaced with a fixed for loop, that option was selected because in a very large number of cases the loop convereged to a point where no difference can be detected in less than 15 iterations. (done for more accurate memory and time banking). 3. output hex string constrained to 14 characters (accuarcy assured to n = 10**7) 4. pi_hex_digits(n) changed to have coeffiecient to the formula in an array (perhaps just a matter of preference). ''' import math def Series(j, n): # Left sum from the bbp algorithm s = 0 D = dn(n) for k in range(0, n+1): r = 8*k+j s = (s + (pow(16,n-k,r)<<4*(D))//r) # Right sum. should iterate to infinty, but now just iterates to the point where # one iterations change is beyond the resolution of the data type used t = 0 for k in range(n+1, n+15): xp = int(16**(n-k) * (16**(D)) ) t = t + xp // (8*k+j) total = s+t return total def pi_hex_digits(n): # main of implimentation arrays holding formulae coefficients n -= 1 a= [4,2,1,1] j = [1,4,5,6] #formulae x = + (a[0]*Series(j[0], n) - a[1]*Series(j[1], n) - a[2]*Series(j[2], n) - a[3]*Series(j[3], n)) & (16**(dn(n)) -1) s=("%014x" % x) #s is constrained between 0 and 14 return s[0:14] def dn(n): # controller for n dependence on precision if (n < 1000): f=16 else: f = int((math.log10(n//1000))+18) return f