Pi: 1.24 trillion places
The World Wide Wade
Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the
value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said
yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion
places.
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I would now propose to the good professor the project of plugging in this
1.24 trillion place decimal into the series
x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - ...
to obtain a new approximation for 0.
Dirk Van de moortel
"The World Wide Wade" <wadera...@attbi.remove13.com> wrote in message
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Very good one :-))
http://users.pandora.be/vdmoortel/dirk/Physics/ImmortalGems.html
Dirk Vdm
David C. Ullrich
Hmm. Raises the question of how many decimal places of 0 you can
get right if you know 1.24 trillion digits of pi, and also how
many terms in the series you need.
David C. Ullrich
John R Ramsden
>
> The World Wide Wade <wadera...@attbi.remove13.com> wrote:
> >
> > From http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98912_pi07.shtml
> > >
> > > Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by
> > > calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project
> > > team member Makoto Kudo said yesterday. The previous record,
> > > set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places.
> >
> > in this 1.24 trillion place decimal into the series
> >
> > x - x^3/3! + x^5/5! - ...
> >
> > to obtain a new approximation for 0.
>
> Hmm. Raises the question of how many decimal places of 0 you can
> get right if you know 1.24 trillion digits of pi, and also how
> many terms in the series you need.
It also raises the question of why they bother with all these
calculations, when 0.00000001 is more than adequate for any
practical purposes.
Jon Miller
well, you clearly don't view division as practical, I see.
Jon Miller