Blue Gene/P Reaches Sixty-Trillionth of Pi Squared 212
Reader Dr.Who notes that an Australian research team using IBM's Blue Gene/P supercomputer has calculated the sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared, a task which took several months of processing. Snipping from the article, the Dr. writes: "'A value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton.' The article goes on to cite use of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer hardware. The article references a blog which has more background. Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkeley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI."
Different outcomes (Score:5, Funny)
From the blurb:
Oh, I expected the sentence to end with, "...and I still don't know why the fuck anyone cares about a number this long."
I'm going to the bar. Who's with me?
Re:Only one binary digit? (Score:5, Funny)