Pi help with Php (mass looping)
- by Pieman
My primary question is:
Is this alot of loops?
while ($decimals < 50000 and $remainder != "0") {
$number = floor($remainder/$currentdivider); //Always round down! 10/3 =3, 10/7 = 1
$remainder = $remainder%$currentdivider; // 10%3 =1, 10%1
$thisnumber = $thisnumber . $number;
$remainder = $remainder . 0; //10
$decimals += 1;
}
Or could I fit more into it? -without the server crashing/lagging.
I'm just wondering,
Also is there a more effiecent way of doing the above? (e.g. finidng out that 1/3 = 0.3 to 50,000 decimals.)
Finally:
I'm doing this for a pi formulae the (1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 etc.) one,
And i'm wondering if there is a better one. (In php)
I have found one that finds pi to 2000 in 4 seconds.
But thats not what I want. I want an infinite series that converges closer to Pi
so every refresh, users can view it getting closer...
see:
http://zombiewrath.com/pi.php (Old one) and
'zombiewrath.com/superpi.php' (Newer one)
But obv. converging using the above formulae takes ALONG time.
Is there any other 'loop' like Pi formulaes (workable in php) that converge faster?
Thanks alot...
