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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."
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.
Researchers will find that Pi begins to repeat after 2,500,000,000,001 digits.
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.
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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.
I heard somewhere it's equal to the circumference of a circle divided by it's diameter...
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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.
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I hear those black hole's are pretty loose
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