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1.7 Billion Digits Of Pi On CD

Posted by timothy on from the amuse-enemies-baffle-friends dept.

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!"

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  1. pi memorization contests by gothzilla · · Score: 4, Funny

    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. :)

  2. No 3? by SilkBD · · Score: 5, Funny
    The data is everything after the '3.' on one line, bzipped.

    What? They couldn't fit the '3' on the disc???

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  3. Not yet, I'll wait a few months... by Rahga · · Score: 4, Funny

    I figure the director's cut on DVD will include even more content.

  4. Mathematical Music by Marillion · · Score: 4, Funny

    Burn it as an audio CD. The static will still sound better than most of the recently released music.

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  5. I've got a bunch of digits of pi by Xtifr · · Score: 4, Funny

    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? :)

  6. 1.7 billion digits of pi on a CD, WITH A BONUS! by EnronHaliburton2004 · · Score: 4, Funny

    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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  7. Torrent by bcmm · · Score: 4, Funny

    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?)

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  8. Re:Why not DVD? by m_chan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Spoiler ahead:

    The last digit is 4.

    I also wrote a compression algorithm that will get you all the digits in 11 characters. Feel free to share with your friends:

    0123456789.