all wrong. Its use of mersenne primes
makes no sense. The author should print
a revised article that is correct and reviewed.
Francois Gouget wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jeramy Ross wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Russel Brooks wrote:
> >
> >http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?UID=35947505&SectionID=30&SubSectio
> nID=90&ArticleID=23815
> > >
> > >While I am the geek brother mentioned in the article I make no claim as
> > >to the accuracy of the article.
>
> Then on Sun, 07 Jan 2001, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> > What does "factor pi" mean?
>
> This is probably a reference to the PiHex project which computed Pi to
> the Quadrillionth digit (I think..). The project is finished but I believeNote that the above (and the article) is incorrect/misleading. AFAIK
the PiHex project did not compute Pi *to* the Quadrillionth digit. They
computed *the* quadrillionth *bit* of Pi (using some standard probably
fixed point representation I assume). I assume this is made clear on
their site (which I have not read in recent times).So now we know the first few million decimal digits of Pi (and thus
about three times as many bits) and then a few isolated bits calculated
by PiHex: the five trillionth bit, the forty trillionth bit, and the
quadrillionth bit.
(went to their site after all)--
Francois Gouget [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://fgouget.free.fr/
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