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1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD
H0ek writes "Not that there is any use for this whatsoever, but there is a torrent available for 1.7 billion digits of pi on a CD. The data is everything after the '3.' on one line, bzipped. There are a couple of the Cygwin tools on the disk as well as source for a small search tool (because grep just didn't cut it this time). Inside the ISO there's links to the source of the data, in case you want the rest of the 4.2 billion digits available. Wear your geek badge with pride! Be the first kid on your block to have the entire set!"
...and it's available on a T-Shirt from ThinkGeek... only in size XXXXXXXL. ;-)
You could probably get another several billion digits on there!
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Me and a friend of mine had a contest once to see who could memorize PI to the most number of decimals. He beat me badly. Needless to say he became a successful wealthy programmer while I still fix pc's for a living. :)
Never underestimate the power of PI.
What? They couldn't fit the '3' on the disc???
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I figure the director's cut on DVD will include even more content.
If that torrent gets past 5 seeders, I will EAT A BRICK.
How about just linking to the software included on the cd and not the whole cd proper?
I'll say this: the BAD thing about BitTorrent is not the fact that 80% of its use is illegal, rather that it lowers the barrier of entry to hosting huge (and incidentally useless, in this case) files from random hole-in-the-wall ISPs.
I'll take back everything I said if that's a huge torrent of porn disguised as a PI cd.
Burn it as an audio CD. The static will still sound better than most of the recently released music.
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Now I can finally find my phone number in pi.
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Since pi is infinite and irrational, I'm pretty sure that the data on every CD I own appears somewhere in pi. So, can I distribute these too? :)
1.7 billion digits of pi on a CD.
And if you have trouble visualizing what Pi calculated to 1.7billion digits, the CD conveniently comes in the shape of a near-perfect circle for reference.
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As this is actually an article about a torrent, I feel that it is legitimate and on-topic to say:
Please stop leaching. You should open at least port 6881 for incoming connections, and leave your bittorrent client open until you have uploaded at least as much as you have downloaded. It's only fair.
Thank you.
(I assume that you are all actually downloading this and not just laughing about it, right?)
# cat
Damn, my RAM is full of llamas.
The '3' will be included in the expansion pack, slated for release in early 2006.
-dave
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Since nothing is going horribly wrong at work today, I took your advice. You will not believe what is encoded in the sequence!
Most of it is awful noise, but after the first two or three minutes it ceases being pure white noise and you get some interesting texture. At this point, I turned up the volume a bit and kept surfing Slashdot. Until my mind was blown.
Right around 7 minutes 6 seconds into the track, the textures resolve into a whispery voice. I know this sounds nuts, and I wouldn't believe it either if I hadn't heard it myself. There's still a lot of fuzz, but ifyou listen carefully you can make out some of what it says:
"...four simultaneous [unintelligible] four hour days...[unintelligible]...rotation of the earth"
"ineffable truth and wisdom"
"four corner [unintelligible] metamorphic human"
This stuff goes on and on, but I need to clean up the audio to understand everything! Does anyone have recommendations for heuristic filtering software? This is absolutely amazing. I wonder what it all means?
Your brain is not a computer.
Oh, man, you just spoiled this guys whole business model.
Guess it's back to underpants.
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
What if we reverse the sequence and try again?
During step two you get laid.
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- - You can't take something off the Internet! That's like trying to take pee out of a swimming pool.
Aha! The old "modulate the shields" technique!