A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript

Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by recursive on Thursday September 12, 2019 @10:54PM (#20958768)

It seems user-centric to you know... make the browser work for what users what to use it for. Like generating digits of pi.

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by nacs on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:23PM (#20964223)

Yes I'm sure there's a lot of consumers that want to calculate large amounts of digits of Pi in their browser..

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Re:A Million Digits of Pi in 9 Lines of JavaScript by recursive on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:37PM (#20967357)

I didn't say that. You're moving goalposts anyway. Calculating pi isn't the only use for big ints. The more practical application is maybe crypto or something.

But some users want to do it.

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