On Thu, 2007-05-24 at 15:44 -0500, M Harris wrote: > On Thursday 24 May 2007 07:33, Eberhard Roloff wrote: > > I am looking for an app that makes my CPU as hot as can be. > > > > This is to test various things that should make my PC silently running > > on a shoestring while staying stable as is. > time echo "scale=1010; 16*a(1/5)-4*a(1/239)" |bc -lq > > The above will compute PI to 1000+ decimal places in about 300-400 ms > on a > modern PC. But, if you set scale sufficiently high---- say, 200000 then > the cpu will become quite warm... and will not damage anything.
That is very cleaver I sent it to my old computer professor who likes APL. Now there is a hard language. Ill see how fast his machine kicks. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/ | \ /|\ || |\ / |~~\ /~~\ /~~| //~~\ | \ / | \ || | X |__/| || |( `--. |__ | | \| \_/ / \ | \ \__/ \__| \\__/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
