generating pi to nth digit java

Question

I wanted to know how I can generate pi to the nth digit. I have a couple of basic ideas.

1. Use Math.PI and increase the precision (if that\'s possib

Answer 1

You can use this code

import java.math.BigDecimal;
import java.math.RoundingMode;

public final class Pi {

private static final BigDecimal TWO = new BigDecimal("2");
private static final BigDecimal FOUR = new BigDecimal("4");
private static final BigDecimal FIVE = new BigDecimal("5");
private static final BigDecimal TWO_THIRTY_NINE = new BigDecimal("239");

private Pi() {}

public static BigDecimal pi(int numDigits) {

  int calcDigits = numDigits + 10;

  return FOUR.multiply((FOUR.multiply(arccot(FIVE, calcDigits)))
    .subtract(arccot(TWO_THIRTY_NINE, calcDigits)))
    .setScale(numDigits, RoundingMode.DOWN);
}

 private static BigDecimal arccot(BigDecimal x, int numDigits) {

BigDecimal unity = BigDecimal.ONE.setScale(numDigits,
  RoundingMode.DOWN);
BigDecimal sum = unity.divide(x, RoundingMode.DOWN);
BigDecimal xpower = new BigDecimal(sum.toString());
BigDecimal term = null;

boolean add = false;

for (BigDecimal n = new BigDecimal("3"); term == null ||
  term.compareTo(BigDecimal.ZERO) != 0; n = n.add(TWO)) {

  xpower = xpower.divide(x.pow(2), RoundingMode.DOWN);
  term = xpower.divide(n, RoundingMode.DOWN);
  sum = add ? sum.add(term) : sum.subtract(term);
  add = ! add;
}
return sum;
}
}

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