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Re: Pi

• Posted by xanax at bellsouth.net Dec 10, 2002
• 438 views

This sounds like the prime-number venture.
actually paying people to find primes above
what has already been found but with todays
computers, it'd take years just to match what
they already have.

Xanax

----- Original Message -----
From: <jordah at btopenworld.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Subject: Re: Pi


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: Why would some one need a number that long? a billion maybe. A
trillion...
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: Was it to show off the supercomputer or the actual program?
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: jordah
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Kat" <kat at kogeijin.com>
: To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
: Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 12:33 AM
: Subject: Pi
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: > 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.
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: > Kat
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