in reply to Computing pi to multiple precision

thanks ambrus for this very interesting and useful post, even if I'm a bit late.

With the help of haukex and other kind monks, I've ported the C code used above to Perl as you can read at Re^2: porting C code to Perl -- solved.

Probably the used algorithm has room for improvement.

L*

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