THE STUART A. LYSTER PI CALCULATION FOUNDATION....

And the winner is......

Stephan Olbrich
Wullwinkel 38
D-30823 Garbsen
Germany

Tel.:  xx49137-13627
Email: olbrich@rrzn.uni-hannover.d400.de


... for his program PI4.TOS, which passes the contest benchmarks
thusly:

  100 decimal digits of PI          0.24 seconds - zounds!
 1000 decimal digits of PI         16.29 seconds - yikes!
10000 decimal digits of PI  25 min 54.3  seconds - ooooo... aahhh!

Isaac Newton would have had a heart attack!  Because of the
multiprecision arithmetic routines, Stephan's is 5 times faster than
the nearest competitor in this contest!  And it was done accurately,
too!  What could Stephan have done with the Borweins' algorithm?

Congratulations, Stephan!  You win $50 Canadian funds, which is in the
neighbourhood of 61.59 Deutsch Marks - based on $1Cdn = .8118 DM.

(Honourable mention to Giovanni Agostino Ciampa
       Address:        Flat 20, Weoley Court,
                       Gibbins Road, 
                       Selly Oak, Birmingham, England.
                (e-mail: gio@wcl.bham.ac.uk))

So... who wants to go for distance, rather than speed?!
