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THE FIRST 10,000 DECIMAL PLACES OF π

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Reprinted with permission of the publisher

The American Mathematical Society, from

MATHEMATICS OF COMPUTATION

Copyright © 1962, vol. XVI, no. 77, pp. 76-99

Facsimile of the first two pages of the computer print-out obtained by Shanks and Wrench, who programmed an IBM 704 to compute π to 100,265 decimal places in July 1961 (see here).