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New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC

Posted by kdawson on from the more-digits-than-you dept.

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."

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  1. Pattern? by Silpher · · Score: 0, Redundant

    If you would put the outcomes in a graph would a pattern arise? If there is a predictable pattern perhaps computation could go a lot faster, but then I guess they would have figured that out by now. ( Or maybe I should call him? :P )

  2. Re:fabrice BELLARD by AlecC · · Score: 0, Redundant

    It is just the customary way in France. You see it all the time on French technical sites, and if you get email from French academics. Just a national quirk.

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