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Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

Posted by timothy on from the I'm-a-good-guesser-in-binary-too dept.

gregg writes "A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi — and a few digits either side of it. Nicholas Sze, of technology firm Yahoo, determined that the digit — when expressed in binary — is 0."

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  1. Re:So, what is the digit in decimal? by Utopia · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Not quite true. See Bellard's formula and Bailey's formula on which it is based.

  2. Consistency, and relative caring by Thing+1 · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    The attention to detail one pays in one field of endeavor is somewhat of an indicator of how much attention to detail one pays overall. Sure, your defense is the SAT separates the two, but the brain doesn't work on different problem classes completely independently!

    There are two ways to express uncaring: "I could not care less", meaning I care as little as possible for this thing, in fact it is not possible for me to care any less than I do right now.

    Then there's the somewhat intricate (for minds like yours) "I could care less", meaning that although it is possible that I could care less for this thing, it would require more effort than I'm willing to put forth, so I'm happy to stick with the current amount of caring I have for this thing.

    Welcome to fifth grade English.

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