The Future: π Calculations on the Internet

In this chapter we introduce you to a procedure which enables π to be computed using a distributed technique and at the same time allows the results thus computed to be recycled for later computations. This approach means that large parts of the computational work can be shared out over many small computers on the Internet. This has the major advantage that ultra-expensive supercomputers only have to be used for those parts of the calculation which only they are capable of performing.