August 2019 Meeting Report

Andrew talked about alternate PIC controller options, now that the 12Fxxxx PICs are getting old.

A newer and very capable PIC is the 16F18326.

Andrew is trying the 'Great Cow' basic for programs over 2K.

Also mentioned was the Real PIC simulator, it costs $60.

Then there was an excursion to the world of Jpop - featuring AKB48 - 'Rover' and 'Gigham' are notable works from this esteemed group of artistes.

Bob fired up a Raspberry Pi 2 and showed some calculations of numbers to many, many digits using GNU MP (Multi Precision?)

Powers of 2 and Pi were featured, and source code for both were demo'd and discussed. A hand out was distributed with the

source code, I also have an electric copy from Bob if anyone would like.

Here's the first 1,000 digits of Pi for the September meeting memory test :

3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510

58209749445923078164062862089986280348253421170679

82148086513282306647093844609550582231725359408128

48111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196

44288109756659334461284756482337867831652712019091

45648566923460348610454326648213393607260249141273

72458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436

78925903600113305305488204665213841469519415116094

33057270365759591953092186117381932611793105118548

07446237996274956735188575272489122793818301194912

98336733624406566430860213949463952247371907021798

60943702770539217176293176752384674818467669405132

00056812714526356082778577134275778960917363717872

14684409012249534301465495853710507922796892589235

42019956112129021960864034418159813629774771309960

51870721134999999837297804995105973173281609631859

50244594553469083026425223082533446850352619311881

71010003137838752886587533208381420617177669147303

59825349042875546873115956286388235378759375195778

18577805321712268066130019278766111959092164201989

Wolfram Mathematica was discussed - it is a maths and analysis package for PC,

or as they say "The world's definitive system for modern technical computing"

See their web site for more info.