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| Fluffy |
Posted - 12/07/2002 : 07:02:17 AM
quote from title of article: quote:
Computer Makes Record Pi
Still think I like Marie Callenders homestyle PIes much better than computer made PIes. HEHE
Computer Makes Record Pi Calculation
.c The Associated Press
TOKYO (Dec. 6) - A team of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, one of the researchers 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, project 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.
12/06/02 10:42 EST
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. |
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| tericee |
Posted - 12/27/2002 : 3:01:43 PM
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Originally posted by PJK
Wow Teri $$1,126.84 for Alzheimer's that's wonderful! Woohooo
My mom has Alzheimers and I pray there is a cure in the future so people won't have to watch their loved ones lose their memory.
Just out of curiosity.....84cents????? I know it's something and anything is better than nothing but how did you all get 84cents? Did someone just empty their pockets? I would have added the 16 cents and made it an even dollar amount. 
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| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 10:29:42 PM
thank you! i just go *bump* cause i saw someone else do that. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 10:27:24 PM
Heheheehe so I'm not the only one who didn't know what that was...I had to ask in a different post....TTT=TO THE TOP!!! |
| victorwootenfan |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 10:03:10 PM
TTT? what does that mean? i'm slow today. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 7:22:55 PM
Wow Teri $$1,126.84 for Alzheimer's that's wonderful! Woohooo
My mom has Alzheimers and I pray there is a cure in the future so people won't have to watch their loved ones lose their memory.
Just out of curiosity.....84cents????? I know it's something and anything is better than nothing but how did you all get 84cents? Did someone just empty their pockets? I would have added the 16 cents and made it an even dollar amount.
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| tericee |
Posted - 12/26/2002 : 7:05:43 PM
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Originally posted by Fluffy
NOPE, I finally gave up on Tericee ever returning and seeing it so I read it to her over the phone. We can let it fall away to obscurity never to grace the top of this forum again.
Goodbye sweet post!!
YOU SHALL BE MISSED!!
Okay, okay, here I am. For the record, I am acknowledging it in person!
I was very busy all weekend & Xmas Eve doing charity gift wrapping at B&N Booksellers. We raised $1,126.84 for the Alzheimer's Association. YAY!!
Now I just have to raise $2700 more for AIDS Project Los Angeles and I can go to Vancouver for the marathon in May...
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| Fluffy |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 10:41:57 PM
NOPE, I finally gave up on Tericee ever returning and seeing it so I read it to her over the phone. We can let it fall away to obscurity never to grace the top of this forum again.
Goodbye sweet post!!
YOU SHALL BE MISSED!! |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 10:25:05 PM
Ok I lied....damnit Fluffy....must I keep doing your work for you????hehe |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 1:14:06 PM
Ok this is the last time TTT! |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/23/2002 : 07:05:55 AM
Ya know Teri, I keep putting this TTT....Hope you stop by and see it. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/22/2002 : 2:21:29 PM
TTT once again for Fluffy for Tericee
Hey Teri...I am going to sponser your run....will try to do that tonight or tomorrow. Again I am sooo impressed with your efforts! The donation is a lot easier to do than the running! |
| KevinLesko |
Posted - 12/20/2002 : 10:48:06 PM
quote:
A team of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places
WHY???? |
| Fluffy |
Posted - 12/20/2002 : 08:03:23 AM
TTT for Tericee, she should be back in CA today and will hopefully check in and finally see this. |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/19/2002 : 4:01:39 PM
TTT for Fluffy for Tericee
Fluffy you have to come around more often to keep things at the top.hehehe |
| pcbTIM |
Posted - 12/07/2002 : 4:26:35 PM
Who needs a cure for cancer when you've got PI!!!!! |
| PJK |
Posted - 12/07/2002 : 11:42:19 AM
My thoughts exactly! |
| Silky The Pimp |
Posted - 12/07/2002 : 11:31:43 AM
Glad to know that research funding goes towards useful things like that, rather than something like stem cell research. Oh wait...
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Such an extremely precise calculation of the figure isn't necessary for any practical scientific use
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