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Calculating PI with bc

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    time echo "scale=10000; 4*a(1)" | bc -l

    3.141592...

    real  2m33.930s
    user  2m32.304s
    sys	  0m1.308s

I also tried “6*a(1/sqrt(3))”. On my machine, it only took 1m36.243s instead of 1m58.411s. I wonder what determines the execution time.