Tag: PI

Using a handy algorithm that splits a calculation into thousands of little intermediary processes, a researcher at Yahoo has used a cluster of 1,000 computers to calculate the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi. Not all two quadrillion digits -- just that one digit (which is a binary 0, if you're wondering). The calculation was made possible by Hadoop, an open source implementation of Google's ...

Fabrice Bellard, touting an algorithm 20 times more efficient any any other, has just calculated pi nearly 2.7 trillion digits. In doing so he beats the existing record of 2.6 trillion set in August 2009. But this isn't just a victory in the number-of-digits sense! No, this is a victory for the humble desktop PC... and for Linux, because of course, every home brew wannabe supercomputer runs ...

Who hasn't wondered what it would sound like if you assigned each number from 1 through 10 a musical value and then plaid those tones in order corresponding to pi? You haven't? Really? What a sad life you must live. For the rest of us, there's pi10k. The web site features a Flash-based application that converts the first 10,000 digits of pi into music. You get to influence the results by ...

There are many unique ways to test your system stability (like faking an earthquake by shaking your desk wildly), but this one takes the cake. The System Stability Tester, a freeware download for Linux, Unix, and Windows, claims to test the stability of your system by calculating millions of digits of Pi in different threads, and comparing the threads for any disparities. You can also run the ...