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RE: Pi

• Posted by Patrick.Barnes at transgrid.com.au Dec 10, 2002
• 423 views

I'd like to see grant money spent on porting a few games to that sort of
hardware.

I wouldn't mind 10000x7500 Doom 3!

-----Original Message-----
From: Derek Parnell [mailto:ddparnell at bigpond.com]
Subject: Re: Pi



This brings to mind at least two questions...

1) How do you prove that they are right?

2) Why bother anyway? With that sort of accuracy, we can measure the 
known universe with an error of less than a sub-atomic particle. That 
is definite overkill. I guess they had to spend that grant money 
somehow 

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cheers,
Derek

----- Original Message -----
From: Kat <kat at kogeijin.com>
Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 11:33 am
Subject: Pi


> 
> This is what string math is for:
> A team of Japanese researchers say they have calculated Pi to 1.24 
> trillion digits. 
> The most accurate previous calculation only stretched to 206 
> billion places. They 
> calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 
> hours in 
> September. Kanada's team spent five years designing the program 
> used in the 
> September experiment, Kudo said. The Hitachi supercomputer is 
> capable of 2 
> trillion calculations per second.
> 
> Kat
> 
> 

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