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One advantage to the hexadecimal version is that you can compute [1] an arbitrary digit without finding all the digits before it. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
by kej 10y ago
One advantage to the hexadecimal version is that you can compute [1] an arbitrary digit without finding all the digits before it.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%9...
- mtreis86 10y agoI had not seen that before. I wonder if any other interesting numbers are better calculated in alternate bases. Thanks