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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."
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 )
It's a French tradition to do so.
its just how the french do it. Kinda makes it easier to work out which is the sirname
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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Anyway, what's with surnames spelled in caps ?
It's a convention that's used to indicate which name is the surname.
It's widely used in the orient and in genealogy. I use it too on occasion.
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