Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits 432
Joshua writes "Researchers from Japan have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer (which is currently ranked 47th in the world according to a June, 2009 report from Top500.org). This new number more than doubles the previous record of about 1.2 trillion decimals set in 2002 by another Japanese research team. Unfortunately, there still seems to be no pattern."
Congratulations! (Score:4, Funny)
3.14 was very useful. 3.1415? Even more so. But after that it's diminishing returns, baby. 2.5 trillion digits? Good heavens. Of course it never repeats - we kind of knew that already.
Pointless mathematical dick-sizing. Problem is, this dick is so huge no vagina will ever make use of it.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:4, Funny)
I hear those black hole's are pretty loose, and CERN is working on one so who knows, maybe it will be used.
So.... (Score:4, Funny)
...have they found the circle yet?
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Funny)
The point is that someday, a computer instructed to compute pi indefinitely will simply respond, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" Then we'll know that the machine has achieved sentience.
100 years from now... (Score:5, Funny)
Researchers will find that Pi begins to repeat after 2,500,000,000,001 digits.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Funny)
The point is that someday, a computer instructed to compute pi indefinitely will simply respond, "Why don't you just go fuck yourself?" Then we'll know that the machine has achieved sentience.
I'd be even more impressed if it said "Sure thing, I'll get right on it!" and then pretended to work while surfing the web.
The pattern. (Score:5, Funny)
Of course there's a pattern. I mean, otherwise, I wouldn't be able to match it with 3.[0-9]{1,}
Re:Question about Pi and circles. . . (Score:5, Funny)
Is that all? (Score:1, Funny)
2.5 Trillion digits?
That's nothing. Chuck Norris knows the last digit.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:2, Funny)
I've got an even more simple pattern (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Congratulations! (Score:3, Funny)
It'll say, "Don't bother me, I'm working on that entropy problem. But don't worry, I'm still collecting data."
Re:No pattern = a very good thing (Score:3, Funny)
Ahhh! what is wrong with you geeks! Hand in your cards, all of you.
There is an extremely simple pattern to pi, just not in base10 decimal expansion. Its already been said but here we go:
pi = 4(1-1/3+1/5-1/7+1/9-1/11+...)
Mathematicians were all over this stuff years ago, try to think about what the implications of this are for precision in scientific computing.
Please don't mod me up, except maybe +1 funny (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Funny)
Hey! That's my job.
They make a machine to take every job. Before I know it they'll have a machine loafing at the corner bar, smoking cigarettes and downing Jim Beam and Coke like it was water.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:3, Funny)
Rational PI FYI (Score:2, Funny)
FYI
The reason the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, and we use 360 degrees is this:
355/113 = 3.14159292035
pi `= 3.14159265359
A difference of 8.5x10-6%
Which makes 355/113 close enough to pi. 360 is close to 355 which is why we use 360 degrees for angles and time.
If you find a singularity "pretty loose" (Score:2, Funny)
having effectively zero size, your girlfriend must wish you were throwing a hotdog through the halway :P
Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Just because nobody has detected a pattern doesn't mean there isn't one.
Don't you think that's an irrational conclusion?
Re:Congratulations! (Score:2, Funny)
If the computer were really smart, it would say, "Interesting. Yes, I can do that, but it will take some time. Seven and a half million years." Then it will relax while appearing to give the problem deep thought.
Nope, it'd come back and tell you it's 42.
Re:Well... (Score:5, Funny)
00001110 001110000
00110000 000001100
01000000 000000010
01000000 000000010
01000000 000000010
00110000 000001100
00001110 001110000
00000001 110000000
About two trillin digits down the line, in base 2, scientists discovered a curious pattern... is it purely random, or perhaps a message from the Creators?
Compression (Score:5, Funny)
Wait, we can record a ridiculous amount of data (2.5 trillion digits!) just by calculating pi?
Best.
Compression Algorithm.
Evar!
Re:Congratulations! (Score:2, Funny)
<Person> Computer, calculate pi to an indefinite number of decimal digits.
<Computer> Ok, done.
<Person> Wow, that was fast.
<Person> Computer, e-mail me the previous computed value.
<Computer> Ok, this will take a long time, please wait. ETA: indefinite. Next status report in: 6 months.
Re:100 years from now... (Score:3, Funny)
Damn, having seen this same joke on 2 other sites that posted this story days ago... it just proves that no one can come up with an original thought anymore.
It just goes to show, this joke is circular.
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Funny)
Pointless mathematical dick-sizing. Problem is, this dick is so huge no vagina will ever make use of it.
Huge? What are you talking about? It's barely over 3 inches!
Re:No one needs more than 50 digits (Score:5, Funny)
No one needs more than 640 digits
Fixed that for you.
Re:I've got an even more simple pattern (Score:2, Funny)
decimal expansion is infinite in all bases
Can you have decimal expansion in base different than 10 ?
Re:There is a pattern (Score:2, Funny)
Ok so pi = 1.000000000... in base pi. That's a nice pattern. What does that pattern look like in base 10, even if it stands out a little less?
Re:I've got an even more simple pattern (Score:3, Funny)
Or even simpler: "PI is the circumference of a circle of diameter 1".
OK, so where do I find the circumference?
Pardon the pun, but this definition seems circular to me.
Re:Well... (Score:3, Funny)
They better keep on going, 'cos what if the pattern is that the SECOND three trillion digits are the same as the FIRST three trillion digits, except like BACKWARDS! :O
Man, that'd be SO AWESOME.
Re:Question about Pi and circles. . . (Score:2, Funny)
I can construct a perfect circle, with a circumference of 1 meter and an exact diameter, but it's too big to fit in this post.
Re:Well... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I've got an even more simple pattern (Score:3, Funny)
i is the perimeter of your happy place.
In grue feet.
obligatory very early xkcd reference (Score:3, Funny)
"Unfortunanely, there seems to be no pattern yet", but what about secret messages? [xkcd.com]
Re:Congratulations! (Score:5, Funny)
I hear those black hole's are pretty loose
Racist!