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Domnei
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Re: 206,158,430,000digits of pi
Posted:
Oct 10, 1999 7:21 PM
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>I'm sorry to inform you, that you haven't broken a record. All of my
>computer's spare cycles are donated to a distributed computing project to
>calculate as many digits as possible of Pi. Just so you know, the five
>trillionth bit of Pi is a 0. Go here for more information:
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>http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/projects/pihex/
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> Art Dardia
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Well, I'm sorry too, but unless I'm a bonehead, Kanada
at U. of Tokyo _did_ establish a new world record (and
still holds it), for calculating the first N digits of pi with the largest
value of N to date. This is different from calculating the Mth digit (and a
few in its vicinity), which is what your
project does. (Not to mention you do it in binary,
not decimal, which is not a trivial difference when you're
calculating isolated digits, since you can't convert from
one base to the other.)
Right?
Mike Keith
Web site: http://users.aol.com/s6sj7gt/mikehome.htm
(remove post-w letters from e-mail address)
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