Could you please give us a formula for figuring out what pi is in base 6? We have the numbers 3,0,5,0,3,3,0,0,5,1,4,5, etc. but we do not know exactly how to obtain these numbers.Digits of pi are generally calculated by representing pi as the sum of an infinite series, then evaluating that sum to as many terms as are necessary to get the desired number of digits.
One way is to use the formula Arctan(x) = x - x^3 + x^5/5 - x^7/7 + ..., which is valid for x <= 1. Plugging in x=1 is not much use because, although you get a formula pi/4 = 1 - 1/3 + 1/5 - 1/7 + ..., the series converges very slowly and you have to take thousands of terms to get even a few digits of accuracy.
A faster way is to use a formula such as pi = 16 Arctan(1/5) - 4 Arctan(1/239). You evaluate each of these arctangents using the above series, taking enough terms of the series to get you to within the accuracy you desire. In your case, you would do the arithmetic in base 6 to get digits of pi in base 6.
Another, more recent, series is
infinity 1 4 2 1 1
pi = SUM ---- ( ------ - ------ - ------ - ---- )
k=0 16^k 8k + 1 8k + 4 8k + 5 8k+6
which has the advantage that in base 16 there turns out to be a clever way to use this formula to calculate far-out digits of pi without having to do high-precision arithmetic and without having to compute all the earlier digits first. That's only a help in base 16 and a few other bases, though.
For example, if you were to use this latter series to calculate the first five base-6 digits of pi, you would say that you want pi to within an accuracy of 6^(-6) (which is about 0.00002). Note that the k-th term in the above series is smaller than 1/16^k, so if you add up the terms from k=n+1 onwards the most you will get is 1/16^(n+1) + 1/16^(n+2) + ... which, by the formula for summing a geometric series, is 1/(15 x 16^n). This, then, is the maximum error you could possibly introduce by taking only the first n terms of the series.
If you take n=3, the above estimate gives you an error of at most 0.0000163 which is smaller than your desired accuracy. Therefore, all you need to do is take the first three terms of the series. You would evaluate the terms when k=0, when k=1, when k=2, and when k=3 and add them up, doing the calculations in base 6.