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New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC
hint3 writes "Fabrice Bellard has calculated Pi to about 2.7 trillion decimal digits, besting the previous record by over 120 billion digits. While the improvement may seem small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC, costing less than $3,000, was used — instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records."
But will it help us in getting flying cars?
Now I can finally get somewhat reasonable precision when calculating the radius of stuff!
1 TB data files... somebody needs to help him with the compression! Oh, wait a minute.
HE USED TRICKS!!!!1111Burn the witch...eehh communist...eeeh climate researcher...eeeeh....PI guy.
speeding bullet, and was able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Fabrice needs to lift his game.
The Internet's nature is peer to peer - 20050301_cs_profs.pdf
Exactly! And hence the discovery of our blessed lady of the grilled cheese sandwich...
~Hal
Plain html is a wonderful thing.
yes, but why not do it in javascript? generating those digits on the fly is much more efficient from a slashdotting perspective.
> It hides an answer to some questions for sure.
Could be. I'm not sure the answer will be in base 10, though.
Maybe, in base 36, beginning at the trillionth digit, pi is:
"URTEHSUXXORUNEED2GETALIFESRSLYKTHXBYE"
That would be amazing.
Mod down people who tell people how to mod in their sigs
Of course, the first step in your plan is to calculate the digits in the first place...
It allows the unwashed masses (of which I am one) a chance to do things that were once only the realm of researchers in academia or the corporate world
I agree, that's why I have great hopes for my atomic bomb.
This is my sig.
Well given (I think, though may be wrong on this) that pretty much any finite sequence of digits will show up in the decimal expansion of pi at some point, there should be a raster image of a circle in 1s and 0s buried in it somewhere. Along with a greyscale raster of Goatse.