According to a BBC news report, Pi has now been calculated to 2.7 trillion digits, 123 billion digits larger that last record.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8442255.stm

That's a lot of pi.

Myself, I like pumpkin pie.

---

SETI@home classic workunits: 93,865 CPU time: 863,447 hours
Join the BP6/VP6 User Group today!

Wait... I thought they solved Pi a few years ago.

---

Overclock with the MSI G31M3-L and Intel E8600 3.33Ghz
Intel D865GLC Socket 478 Motherboard
~How To Overclock The Eee ASUS 1005HA Netbook To 1.9Ghz~

Reuben Gathright wrote:

Wait... I thought they solved Pi a few years ago.

There's a solution?

---

The only remaining question about pi is whether to cut it into 6 pieces or 8 pieces.

---

That's a lot of pi.

Myself, I like pumpkin pie.

I like pumpkin too, But Apple is My favorite, My nephew likes Cherry a lot, Me I like Cherry also, But not as much as Apple. :D

And yeah that's a BIG Pi. :)

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Pi is an irrational number. It cannot be resolved, it is endless and non-repeating. Other irrational numbers are, for example, sqrt(2), e, the square root of any prime number. Irrational means it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two numbers.

I think the ancient Greeks "solved" pi many moons ago. It is exactly the ratio of the circumference of a perfect circle to its diameter. Problems start when we try to express that "exact solution" as a numerical value.

---

Pi is an irrational number. It cannot be resolved, it is endless and non-repeating. Other irrational numbers are, for example, sqrt(2), e, the square root of any prime number. Irrational means it cannot be expressed as a ratio of two numbers.

No...Pi is fine. It is the people that are irrational

Hmmm... I wonder if the (calculated) length of Pi obeys Moore's law?

EDIT: And by the way, I can't stand pumpkins... ;)

---

- Luke.

Seems to me that the size of Pi is unchanged, and so is the number of digits that have yet to be calculated.

---

Hmmm... I wonder if the (calculated) length of Pi obeys Moore's law?

EDIT: And by the way, I can't stand pumpkins... ;)

Some here can't either, Some build air cannons, catapults and such just to see who can lob one the farthest, All just to see a pumpkin go splat!

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Seems to me that the size of Pi is unchanged, and so is the number of digits that have yet to be calculated.

Very true Ned. Should we be funding this research based on how much they decreased the number of remaining digits in the last budget cycle?

---

Very true Ned. Should we be funding this research based on how much they decreased the number of remaining digits in the last budget cycle?

Makes sense to me.

---

ISTR there's a sci-fi story that is based on finding a long string of repeating 0's (zeroes) in Pi.

Does anyone know the name of it?

Martin

ISTR there's a sci-fi story that is based on finding a long string of repeating 0's (zeroes) in Pi.

Not sure why it'd be a sci-fi. If there are an infinite number of digits, and the probability of any digit is 1 in 10, then the law of large numbers says that there will be an infinitely long string of zeros somewhere in an infinitely long number.

---

ISTR there's a sci-fi story that is based on finding a long string of repeating 0's (zeroes) in Pi.

Not sure why it'd be a sci-fi. If there are an infinite number of digits, and the probability of any digit is 1 in 10, then the law of large numbers says that there will be an infinitely long string of zeros somewhere in an infinitely long number.

Of course, that infinitely long string of zeros would only be an infinitesimal portion of the whole string of digits making up pi.

Thinking like this makes my brain hurt.

---

ISTR there's a sci-fi story that is based on finding a long string of repeating 0's (zeroes) in Pi.

Not sure why it'd be a sci-fi. If there are an infinite number of digits, and the probability of any digit is 1 in 10, then the law of large numbers says that there will be an infinitely long string of zeros somewhere in an infinitely long number.

Of course, that infinitely long string of zeros would only be an infinitesimal portion of the whole string of digits making up pi.

Thinking like this makes my brain hurt.

Are Ya sure Yer not a Voomer? ;)

(VOodoo Organic Metal Extension Resource), robots manufactured by the Genom Corporation, Which can become a Boomer(very bad). :D

---

The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

ISTR there's a sci-fi story that is based on finding a long string of repeating 0's (zeroes) in Pi.

Not sure why it'd be a sci-fi. If there are an infinite number of digits, and the probability of any digit is 1 in 10, then the law of large numbers says that there will be an infinitely long string of zeros somewhere in an infinitely long number.

Of course, that infinitely long string of zeros would only be an infinitesimal portion of the whole string of digits making up pi.

Thinking like this makes my brain hurt.

Absolutely, along with an infinite number of other strings, like 01234567890123....

---

If there are...

Exactly.

No one knows if pi is or isn't infinite and that's the (fun) and crux of the problem.

It's still sci-fi because, so far, no one has detected any continuously repeating strings. If/when any are found, Pi will cease to be considered an irrational number.

Martin