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Adi
25-05-2003, 09:40 PM
Here it is, the number Pi, to a million decimal places.

WARNING: May take a while to load, insane stuff, for som freaks only :P

http://newton.ex.ac.uk/research/semiconductors/theory/collabs/pi/pi6.txt

P.S Have fun!

S.
25-05-2003, 09:43 PM
They missed a 7

Adi
25-05-2003, 09:46 PM
Yea the 7 is after the millionth digit.... :roll:

Adi
25-05-2003, 10:04 PM
Can you imagine how insignificant that '1' [the millionth decimal place] feels.... awwww....

25-05-2003, 10:05 PM
can u imagine what nerds you look like ? :roll:

Mason
26-05-2003, 03:43 AM
Thats crazy stuff man, I want to see the kid that figured that out.

CHEWY
26-05-2003, 11:44 AM
that was a waste of 32 seconds of my physics class

belly_up
26-05-2003, 11:58 AM
Here's some fun Pi facts for ya:

Year: 1973
Computer: CDC7600
Number of digits: 1 million
Time Taken: 23.5 hours

Year: 1978
Computer: Apple II
Number of digits: 1000
Time Taken: 40 hours

Year: 1983
Computer: Hitachi M-280H
Number of digits: 16 Million
Time Taken: 30 Hours

Year: 1998(?)
Computer: Celeron 633
Number of digits: 1000
Time Taken: 0.27 secs

Year: 1998 (?)
Computer: Celeron 633
Number of digits: 1 Million
Time Taken: 26 seconds

Year: 1998 (?)
Computer: Celeron 633
Number of digits: 16 million
Time Taken: 22 minutes

Year: 2003
Computer: PII 350
Number of digits: 20 million
Time Taken: 17 minutes

Year: 2003
Computer: Athlon 1.5ghz
Number of digits: 20 million
Time Taken: 214 Seconds (3.5 min)

Year: 2003
Computer: P4 3.2ghz
Number of digits: 20 million
Time Taken: 109 seconds (1.8 min)

alshogun
26-05-2003, 12:26 PM
& how many people would actually need to know that? the last half a million digits were probably randomly put in by the people who did it just as a joke :lol: afterall who's going to check it?

Adi
26-05-2003, 05:23 PM
I dont think anyone would waste time typing up like 900,000 bs numbers, do you know how lonf hat would take... there is/are formulas that are used to work out Pi to a extent of decimal places that we dont need :P.

Interesing stuff tho... i found out that 25million charachters on notepad take up 25megs :D.

Adi
26-05-2003, 05:49 PM
P.S I like the idea of an of-topic disscusion forum :)

josh
26-05-2003, 11:43 PM
i didnt let the thing load fully, once you've seen the numbers 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 you've seen them all, numbers are over-rated!

p.s. 700 yay

Adi
26-05-2003, 11:44 PM
I'm so sorry to tell you this.... but 700 is an overrated number! [Oh-oh]

;)


ADIN

27-05-2003, 09:26 AM
hahahaah
overated
and pi isnt a number its a function you press the pie button on calculators and the symbol comes up therefor its a function

belly_up
27-05-2003, 09:36 AM
Pi isn't a function, it is a number, it's just a hard to define number.

Adi
27-05-2003, 08:06 PM
A function is, y=x^2

however, if you tried to graph pi It'd be a straight line at y=3.1414.......... :)

Pi is my friend...

27-05-2003, 08:07 PM
you and your intro calcness :roll:

Adi
27-05-2003, 08:12 PM
Youre year 12 you should know that :P

27-05-2003, 08:12 PM
im a stupid year 12 hahah lol im sorry it was a simple mistake i thought it was a function

Adi
27-05-2003, 08:34 PM
Its okay, I forgive you :)

ali_g
12-01-2004, 09:38 PM
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12-01-2004, 09:47 PM
*clicks fingers*

*waits for josh and his banning stick*

ali_g
12-01-2004, 09:48 PM
hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe

tu plang
12-01-2004, 09:58 PM
ali g i would like to take this oppurtunity to say goodbye and have a nice life, i hope never to read ur worthless crap again and if i never have to meet u it will be too soon. ur hours on farkin.net are numbered i suspect.

bryn
12-01-2004, 10:36 PM
pfft..who doesn't know that ? (excluding NORMAL people)

sifter
12-01-2004, 10:52 PM
i taught myself pi to 14 decimal places in 5th form, try me in a month i reckon i can memorise to at least 30.

curtisrider
12-01-2004, 10:59 PM
pfhht, who cares?

S.
12-01-2004, 11:06 PM
i taught myself pi to 14 decimal places in 5th form, try me in a month i reckon i can memorise to at least 30.

Shouldn't be that hard if you can memorise the 26-character alphabet.

Rik
12-01-2004, 11:08 PM
but in an alphabet letters only appear once.

Adi
12-01-2004, 11:14 PM
pfhht, who cares?

Don't know if you noticed Mark, but this thread has been gravedug by ali g. :roll:.

curtisrider
12-01-2004, 11:16 PM
pfhht, who cares?

Don't know if you noticed Mark, but this thread has been gravedug by ali g. :roll:.

nope didnt notice

Adi
12-01-2004, 11:17 PM
At least you are honest.... :lol:.

S.
12-01-2004, 11:18 PM
but in an alphabet letters only appear once.

Exactly, so you've got all kinds of different ones to remember.

Rik
12-01-2004, 11:20 PM
But you know, once it's had its turn, it's not going to appear again.
Whereas, you've only got 10 numbers, and they can do all sorts of crazy things.

S.
12-01-2004, 11:25 PM
But you know, once it's had its turn, it's not going to appear again.
Whereas, you've only got 10 numbers, and they can do all sorts of crazy things.

Yeah but it's remembering the name, sound and position of each individual character that makes it MORE difficult. With numbers, only position matters after you've memorised 10 characters. Easy.

Rik
12-01-2004, 11:28 PM
All depends on how your memory works as well, if you confuse things easily.
Because how many numbers would you have stored in your head? Birth dates, PIN's, access codes, etc...

sifter
12-01-2004, 11:33 PM
All depends on how your memory works as well, if you confuse things easily.
Because how many numbers would you have stored in your head? Birth dates, PIN's, access codes, etc...
repetition is the key to end all your woes

S.
12-01-2004, 11:44 PM
All depends on how your memory works as well, if you confuse things easily.
Because how many numbers would you have stored in your head? Birth dates, PIN's, access codes, etc...

What if it's 12:38am and shut up?