Researchers Break Pi Calculation Record - Neatorama

Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have broken the record for the number of calculated digits of the constant pi:

The T2K Tsukuba System is a 640-computer cluster with a processing speed of 95 trillion floating-point operations per second. The T2K calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes, which is a small fraction of the 600 hours taken by the previous record holders—Hitachi and the University of Tokyo—who calculated only 1.2 trillion places.

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Anyone care to explain why it is important to find out how long PI is?

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Ok, who's gonna write that whole number down for some math problem?

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Pi's decimal representation is infinitely long.

All we're doing here is benchmarking cluster performance and giving autistic savants new things to memorize.

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Just one question; if no one has ever calculated it that that far before, how do we know that its right?

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if we know it to a certain point we well be able to draw energy from subspace, that is, the exact amount of energy it takes to calculate which creates a paradox that finally let´s us divide by zero what happens after that I can´t even possibly imagine . . .

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Super fail, I'd say. They calculated only a couple of trillion numbers, while there are still trillions of quadrillions and even a whole googel to uncover.

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neerds? nerrds. nerrrrrrrds!

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Did they find the embedded circle yet?

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Couldn't all that calculation power be used for, I don't know, help research on diseases such as cancer, aids, flu, etc... ?

(oh, wait! I know! http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org !)

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The cookies (if that is what they are) look disgusting.

I just had to say that.

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