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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: videoholic on December 07, 2002, 11:41:21 AM

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: videoholic on December 07, 2002, 11:41:21 AM

http://www.msnbc.com/news/844110.asp?0dm=C13LT

Pi calculated to 1.24 trillion digits

Researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, a member of the team said Friday. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 hours in September, team member Makoto Kudo said.

 THE NEW CALCULATION is more than six times the number of places in the record currently recognized by Guinness World Records — 206.158 billion places — which Kanada also helped calculate in 1999.
       “We would need to verify it, but it sounds like Professor Kanada has broken his own record,” Guinness World Records spokesman Neil Hayes said. He said a Guinness math expert would need to verify the data.
       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, or twice as fast as the one used for the current Guinness record calculation.
       Pi, usually given as 3.14, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and has an infinite number of decimal places.
       Such an extremely precise calculation of the figure isn’t necessary for any practical scientific use, but researchers say it contributes to improving scientific calculation methods.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Titan on December 07, 2002, 11:53:50 AM

This is as far as I can get. 3.1415. Thats it. Whoever can go farther than 10 needs a life.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Cerberus on December 07, 2002, 12:06:28 PM

3.14159265

That\'s as far as I can recall, it\'s more than likely wrong, but it\'s as far as I can recall.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: videoholic on December 07, 2002, 12:07:44 PM

That means you are 4/5ths dork.

:)

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Cerberus on December 07, 2002, 12:12:49 PM

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Originally posted by Videoholic
That means you are 4/5ths dork.

:)

Well, yeah......And your point is?

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: ben_high on December 07, 2002, 12:25:59 PM

This sounds like a complete waste of time,and I hope it was privatly funded.I will never understand why mathmeticians are so fascinated with trying to calculate pi.You don\'t see any mathmeticians dividing 3 into 10  to infinity.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: videoholic on December 07, 2002, 12:26:45 PM

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Originally posted by Cerberus



Well, yeah......And your point is?

Titan said anyone over 10 digits needs to get a life.  You got 8...

Just teasing there buddy.

"Who the hell is Cerebrus?"

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: shockwaves on December 07, 2002, 12:57:31 PM

3.14159265358979

I get bored in math class :(

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Kurt Angle on December 07, 2002, 01:10:37 PM

I would rather eat a nice pie.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: videoholic on December 07, 2002, 01:57:22 PM

hair?

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Titan on December 07, 2002, 03:32:13 PM

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Originally posted by shockwaves
3.14159265358979

I get bored in math class :(

Get a life :p

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: cloud345 on December 07, 2002, 06:49:49 PM

3.358258594878678768956794568549547649863548769347643968934674589465375389653979873474348759549853



Thats an educated guess.......

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Post by: shockwaves on December 07, 2002, 06:52:43 PM

Hey, I can only fall asleep staring at a poster my teacher has up with pi to like 100 places so many times before I start to remember some of it. :(

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: The Stapler on December 07, 2002, 09:49:54 PM

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Originally posted by cloud345
3.358258594878678768956794568549547649863548769347643968934674589465375389653979873474348759549853



Thats an educated guess.......

Not really...:p

At least get the second digit right! :)

3.141 is ALL I know.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Cerberus on December 08, 2002, 02:19:04 AM

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Originally posted by Videoholic


"Who the hell is Cerebrus?"

It\'s me........almost.

Title: And I can only think of 2 places.
Post by: Skyrider666 on December 08, 2002, 04:34:16 AM

3.1416 is all I remember,or else just use calculator.The wierd thing is back at high school I remember saying "when am I ever gonna use this crap" Then I get a job using it all the time.

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Post by: Luke on December 08, 2002, 10:52:40 AM

god i hate math