FOM: correction: colloquium on 11. ...............0.......... (fwd)

[Robert M. Solovay]

This is a correction to the previous post that I forwarded to fom on the
digits of pi.
	--Bob Solovay

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Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 09:42:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Alan Weinstein <alanw at math.berkeley.edu>
To: faculty at math.berkeley.edu, allgrads at math.berkeley.edu
Subject: correction: colloquium on 11. ...............0..........


OK--my error--it should have been binary!

Alan

9/21   Peter Borwein (Simon Fraser University, visiting MSRI)
       The forty trillionth binary digit of pi is 0.

This lecture will cover various aspects, historical and mathematical,
of the computation of digits of pi and related polylogarithmic
constants. The mathematics involved is both subtle and beautiful.

Included will be a discussion of the surprising recent algorithms that
allow for the computation of individual binary digits of pi (without
computing all the preceding digits).