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Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits
Joshua writes "Researchers from Japan have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer (which is currently ranked 47th in the world according to a June, 2009 report from Top500.org). This new number more than doubles the previous record of about 1.2 trillion decimals set in 2002 by another Japanese research team. Unfortunately, there still seems to be no pattern."
These researchers are now in possession of the most useless piece of information in science.
3.14 was very useful. 3.1415? Even more so. But after that it's diminishing returns, baby. 2.5 trillion digits? Good heavens. Of course it never repeats - we kind of knew that already.
Pointless mathematical dick-sizing. Problem is, this dick is so huge no vagina will ever make use of it.
...have they found the circle yet?
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Researchers will find that Pi begins to repeat after 2,500,000,000,001 digits.
Of course there's a pattern. I mean, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to match it with 3.[0-9]{1,}
I've constructed a perfect circle, with a circumference of 1 meter. It's the diameter I'm having trouble with.
2.5 Trillion digits?
That's nothing. Chuck Norris knows the last digit.
I heard somewhere it's equal to the circumference of a circle divided by it's diameter...
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Ahhh! what is wrong with you geeks! Hand in your cards, all of you.
There is an extremely simple pattern to pi, just not in base10 decimal expansion. Its already been said but here we go:
pi = 4(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9-1/11+...)
Mathematicians were all over this stuff years ago, try to think about what the implications of this are for precision in scientific computing.
While I think that the computing horsepower was misdirected (covered elsewhere), and the last trillion digits could have waited, this post is mostly here for me to be arrogantly dismissive and make dick / vagina jokes.
FYI
The reason the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, and we use 360 degrees is this:
355/113 = 3.14159292035
pi `= 3.14159265359
A difference of 8.5x10-6%
Which makes 355/113 close enough to pi. 360 is close to 355 which is why we use 360 degrees for angles and time.
having effectively zero size, your girlfriend must wish you were throwing a hotdog through the halway :P
Just because nobody has detected a pattern doesn't mean there isn't one.
Don't you think that's an irrational conclusion?
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00000001 110000000
00001110 001110000
00110000 000001100
01000000 000000010
01000000 000000010
01000000 000000010
00110000 000001100
00001110 001110000
00000001 110000000
About two trillin digits down the line, in base 2, scientists discovered a curious pattern... is it purely random, or perhaps a message from the Creators?
Wait, we can record a ridiculous amount of data (2.5 trillion digits!) just by calculating pi?
Best.
Compression Algorithm.
Evar!
No one needs more than 640 digits
Fixed that for you.
Ok so pi = 1.000000000... in base pi. That's a nice pattern. What does that pattern look like in base 10, even if it stands out a little less?
They better keep on going, 'cos what if the pattern is that the SECOND three trillion digits are the same as the FIRST three trillion digits, except like BACKWARDS! :O
Man, that'd be SO AWESOME.
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I will try them.
You will see.
I can construct a perfect circle, with a circumference of 1 meter and an exact diameter, but it's too big to fit in this post.
You mean the Creators are sending us a goatse?
I'm surprised that nobody posted this yet.
"Unfortunanely, there seems to be no pattern yet", but what about secret messages?