GV

GeezerVison

The World Wide Web, restored to 800 pixels of glory.

Home|About|Gaming cabinet|Archives|How it works|Starter sites

On this site

  • Sign in
  • ActionsCI/CD and automation
  • CodespacesCloud development environments
  • All Features
  • Documentation
  • Training
  • Certifications
  • Build with Copilot
  • Customize Copilot
  • Integrations
  • Trending repos
  • GitHub Sponsors
  • Developer articles
  • Enterprises

This view

  • Original page
  • New address

GeezerVison is showing github.com — Add Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula for hex digits of pi by AnshMahajan-grep · Pull Request #15723 · TheAlgorithms/Python

Conversation

@AnshMahajan-grep

@AnshMahajan-grep AnshMahajan-grep commented Nov 12, 2026

Copy link
Copy Markdown

Describe your change:

Adds an implementation of the Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe (BBP) formula in maths/bailey_borwein_plouffe.py.

The BBP formula is a spigot algorithm discovering in 1995 that allows direct extraction of any arbitrary hexadecimal (or binary) digit of $\pi$ without needing to calculate all preceding digits.

Key points:

  • Implemented with pure standard library Python.
  • Functions have complete type annotations and docstrings.
  • Doctests cover standard and boundary cases and pass with pytest.
  • Code conforms to formatting and lint rules (ruff).

References:

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula
  • https://www.experimentalmath.info/bbp-codes/bbp-alg.pdf
  • Bailey, D. H., Borwein, P. B., & Plouffe, S. (1997). Mathematics of Computation.

Checklist:

  • I have read the CONTRIBUTING.md guidelines.
  • All functions have type hints and docstrings with doctests.
  • All doctests pass locally.

Sorry, something went wrong.

Uh oh!

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.

All reactions
@AnshMahajan-grep
Add Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe formula for hex digits of pi
a1aa61e
@algorithms-keeper algorithms-keeper Bot added awaiting reviews This PR is ready to be reviewed enhancement This PR modified some existing files labels Nov 12, 2026

This branch has not been deployed

No deployments
Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment

Reviewers

No reviews

Uh oh!

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.

Assignees

No one assigned

Labels

awaiting reviews This PR is ready to be reviewed enhancement This PR modified some existing files

Projects

None yet

Milestone

No milestone

Development

Successfully merging this pull request may close these issues.

Uh oh!

There was an error while loading. Please reload this page.

1 participant

@AnshMahajan-grep
Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.This suggestion is invalid because no changes were made to the code.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is closed.Suggestions cannot be applied while viewing a subset of changes.Only one suggestion per line can be applied in a batch.Add this suggestion to a batch that can be applied as a single commit.Applying suggestions on deleted lines is not supported.You must change the existing code in this line in order to create a valid suggestion.Outdated suggestions cannot be applied.This suggestion has been applied or marked resolved.Suggestions cannot be applied from pending reviews.Suggestions cannot be applied on multi-line comments.Suggestions cannot be applied while the pull request is queued to merge.Suggestion cannot be applied right now. Please check back later.
You are visitor 01402503 — GeezerVison does not store the pages you look up.
Best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.7 or Internet Explorer 6 at 800×600. No cookies required.