On 11/06/2010 01:18 PM, Marko Vojinovic wrote: > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Mogens Kjaer <mk@xxxxxxx> wrote: >>> http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~ooura/pi_fft.html >>> >>> You'll need RAM to get many digits. >> >> 1.6 G decimals in 20 hours on a machine with 16G RAM, running >> x86_64 Fedora 12. > > Really, I'm curious, is there any real-world problem where anyone > would actually *need* pi to a G decimal places? Is there a *need* to climb Mount Everest ? Actually, I had a machine with a RAM failure a couple of years ago. It took days for Memtest86+ to find this error. The FFT code above (the same was used in Seti@Home) made the error show up within a few hours. ... > > Or maybe there are still people who believe pi is rational rather than > transcendent, and look for a cyclic repeat pattern in the decimals? > ;-) Read Carl Sagan: Contact. :-) Mogens -- Mogens Kjaer, mk@xxxxxxx http://www.lemo.dk -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
