online trails

[mellowtigger]

Thinking about my nickname and its age, I decide to google myself again to see what kind of trail I've left.  Now that I participate in LiveJournal, I had to exclude that site to weed out many of the hits.  I did find a post to an email list back in 1989.  What's funny is that it was back in the days before the internet, and I was posting on BITnet... yet it still ended up archived on the internet.  *laugh*

Curiously, though, a similar but older (by a few days) post that google used to locate is no longer indexed by the search engine.  I didn't realize that results were eventually weeded out like that.  Very odd.

Date:         Tue, 21 Mar 89 10:29:04 CST
Reply-To:     Number Theory List <NMBRTHRY@NDSUVM1>,
              Terry Walker <N107BQ@TAMVM1>
Sender:       Number Theory List <NMBRTHRY@NDSUVM1>
Comments:     Warning -- original Sender: tag was THEORYNT@YKTVMX
From:         Terry Walker <N107BQ@TAMVM1>
Subject:      Calculation of pi

This may not be the correct place to post this question, but I'm running
out of options.  I hope somebody out there can help me.
 
What I'm looking for is an algorithm for computing the digits of pi made
specifically for computers.  I know that when pi is computed these days,
there are always 2^n digits found.  There's *got* to be an efficient way
of doing it.  Can anyone help me?
 
- Terry Walker     "The Mellow Tigger"