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."

Comments

Congratulations!

[Petersko]

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.

Re:Congratulations!

[AnonGCB]

I hear those black hole's are pretty loose, and CERN is working on one so who knows, maybe it will be used.

Re:Congratulations!

[Anonymous Coward]

The point is that someday, a computer instructed to compute pi indefinitely will simply respond, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" Then we'll know that the machine has achieved sentience.

Re:Congratulations!

[Snarfangel]

The point is that someday, a computer instructed to compute pi indefinitely will simply respond, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" Then we'll know that the machine has achieved sentience.

I'd be even more impressed if it said "Sure thing, I'll get right on it!" and then pretended to work while surfing the web.

Re:Congratulations!

[east coast]

I'd be even more impressed if it said "Sure thing, I'll get right on it!" and then pretended to work while surfing the web.

Hey! That's my job.

They make a machine to take every job. Before I know it they'll have a machine loafing at the corner bar, smoking cigarettes and downing Jim Beam and Coke like it was water.

Re:Congratulations!

[commodoresloat]

Pointless mathematical dick-sizing. Problem is, this dick is so huge no vagina will ever make use of it.

Huge? What are you talking about? It's barely over 3 inches!

Re:Congratulations!

[shiftless]

I hear those black hole's are pretty loose

Racist!

So....

[MichaelSmith]

...have they found the circle yet?

100 years from now...

[Anonymous Coward]

Researchers will find that Pi begins to repeat after 2,500,000,000,001 digits.

Re:100 years from now...

[Twide]

Damn, having seen this same joke on 2 other sites that posted this story days ago... it just proves that no one can come up with an original thought anymore.

It just goes to show, this joke is circular.

The pattern.

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course there's a pattern. I mean, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to match it with 3.[0-9]{1,}

Re:Question about Pi and circles. . .

[e9th]

I've constructed a perfect circle, with a circumference of 1 meter. It's the diameter I'm having trouble with.

I've got an even more simple pattern

[sayfawa]

I heard somewhere it's equal to the circumference of a circle divided by it's diameter...

Re:Well...

[Kagura]

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?

Compression

[The_mad_linguist]

Wait, we can record a ridiculous amount of data (2.5 trillion digits!) just by calculating pi?

Best.

Compression Algorithm.

Evar!

Re:No one needs more than 50 digits

[commodoresloat]

No one needs more than 640 digits

Fixed that for you.

obligatory very early xkcd reference

[phaunt]

I'm surprised that nobody posted this yet.
"Unfortunanely, there seems to be no pattern yet", but what about secret messages?