I am new to the list so this might be known already.
I calculated 1000000 digits of PI and found the last 4 are wrong. I then
calculated 3142 digits and found the last 2 were wrong. The method that
is used seems to leave the last few digits wrong so you should calculate
a little farther so that you can display the correct digits to the depth
asked for.
here is the results
MAXIMA
678796130331164628399634646042209010610577943925
Joy of PI book
6787961303311646283996346460422090106105779458131
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1 millionth digit
ev(bfloat(%PI),fpprec:3142);
414665925201497435
41466592520149744285073246
ev(bfloat(%PI),fpprec:3150);
I hope this is clear and helps .
thanks again for the great software.
Doug Stewart