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I completely agree that this is a great resource. BTW, the Springer site book link is https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-14764-7. I’m thankful that the author has made the book and code freely available.

The author also co-authored a book about historical and state-of-the-art pi computations called Pi Unleashed (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-642-56735-3). The code and additional resources are available at https://extras.springer.com/?query=978-3-642-56735-3. Though somewhat dated (circa 2000), there’s a lot of fascinating information in the 229 Mb zip download, including a 133 char C program (pitiny.c) that computes 15000 digits of pi.



Glad you mentioned Pi Unleashed. That tiny pitiny.c program is legendary in its own right. It really highlights the minimalism—squeezing out every bit of performance and precision.




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