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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!"

2 of 202 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Who uses PI? by Daniel+Dvorkin · · Score: 3, Informative

    Our microscopic image processing software uses pi to considerable precision. This is, I admit, a pretty specialized application.

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    The correlation between ignorance of statistics and using "correlation is not causation" as an argument is close to 1.
  2. Re:Woo Hoo! by stienman · · Score: 3, Informative

    You could do that before:
    PI Phone Number Search Engine

    -Adam