[Closed] 3.14 Pi new world record...

That's not pie. It is two "I"s with a pastry hat.

Circles are completely pointless

Circles are completely pointless

That struck a chord with me but then I went off at a tangent.

In my year 12 maths class, my teacher had a poster on the wall depicting Pi to 1000 digits. I was so-o-o-o bored more than 90% of the time that I ended up memorising quite a bit of the poster, and was able to rattle of Pi to about 30 digits.

It became my signature party trick.

I wasn't very popular at parties.

"I feel very surprised," Ms Iwao, who has worked at Google for the past three years, said of her achievement.

"I am still trying to adjust to the reality. The world record has been really hard."

Years of training and preparation, I bet

Who does actually check it? Can't imagine Norris McWhirter standing there for 330 odd thousand years...

I call fake!

It became my signature party trick.

I wasn’t very popular at parties.

I thought I was dull having memorised it to 10SF...

I'm going to count the words in that big Brexit thread and see if it's some kind of record. I can be interesting too you know, Emma.

In 2010, Nicholas Sze used Yahoo cloud computing to calculate that the two quadrillionth digit of Pi was zero - a calculation that would have taken 500 years on a standard computer at that time.

However, he did not calculate all the digits in between.

I don't get it. How?

How?

The question for me is why?
Seriously, why? Just because you can?
Or is there some massive benefit to the human race that I'm not seeing here?

I don’t get it. How?

I was confused too, it seems a formula was invented or discovered (a matter of debate lol) in 1995:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bailey%E2%80%93Borwein%E2%80%93Plouffe_formula

Er.. yay?

Wow - that plouffe thing is cool Thanks for the link HoratioHufnagel

"One: Mathematics is the language of nature. Two: Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature."

What I don't understand is what is HER achievement? What are the challenges in computing an even bigger number? It took 25 servers and 121 days. Why not just bung an extra bunch of VMs and spend a bit longer doing the sums?

All this has taught me is that she had too much free time at work.

“One: Mathematics is the language of nature. Two: Everything around us can be represented and understood through numbers. Three: If you graph the numbers of any system, patterns emerge. Therefore, there are patterns everywhere in nature.”

The Fibonacci sequence being a particularly significant one - my singlespeed has a set of spacers based on Fibonacci numbers to get the best alignment of the cog with the chainring. It’s also what gives flower petals a spiral, and sea and snail shells.

I used pi today to estimate the length of some water pipe. Turns out 3 was close enough. Didn't use a computer. True story.

Well don't come to me if it starts leaking 'cos it's too short and pulls out of the joints.

I used pi today to estimate the length of some water pipe. Turns out 3 was close enough. Didn’t use a computer. True story.

You can get accurate (to within a couple of metres) orbital height above the moon using 5 digits. 10 digits gives you accuracy to within a few thousandths of an inch.

Emma Haruka has nothing on Eleanor Arroway...