A French software programmer claims to have set a new pi calculation record, extending the previous record by some 123 billion digits. I’d hate to verify that record.
Thanks, Rob, for sending this over.
A French software programmer claims to have set a new pi calculation record, extending the previous record by some 123 billion digits. I’d hate to verify that record.
Thanks, Rob, for sending this over.
The link is not quite right.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/sciencemathematicsfranceoffbeat
BTW, Fabrice Bellard is the author of TCC, Tiny C Compiler. Although this is full C, and a compiler, I always think of tiny-c, the interpreter, which I promote.
Speaking of which, I am looking for people who might be interested in learning this language. Check out the Facebook group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=299317782048
for more information.
Thanks, Lee! Could have proofed that better. I updated that main post. The Tiny C group looks interesting!
Wow, Very Cool
I’m surprised that they only used one computer. Today seem that distributing computing is a way to go in computing large tasks.
Any idea on what algorithm he used, or series of representation?
Brian -
Visit
http://bellard.org/
and
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice_Bellard
where you will find not only a lot of what you want to know but a lot more.
- Lee
really interesting
a lot to read,
I hope he lets out the src code. I would like to play with it a bit.
I found some formulas that he uses to calculate pi on wiki. But I don’t see any proofs on how they were derived or how they work
and dose the formula loose accurate as it approaches (or trys)? What prevents him running it for another month to break a another record?