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Choice Votes   Percent
Yes, but no more than 100 digits 23 12.5%   
Yes, but no more than 10,000 digits 7 3.8%   
Yes, but no more than 1,000,000 digits 3 1.6%   
Yes, but no more than 1,000,000,000 digits 8 4.3%   
Yes, and it will be the largest calculation of pi the world has ever seen! 52 28.3%   
How can you calculate pi with a computer? 74 40.2%   
Pi? Huh? 17 9.2%   

Survey posted 2005-03-14 06:29 by Jon.

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Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
RJ Larimore  Account Info
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this isnt really much of a question, all of the answers are yes. is either you will make a pi program or you dont know what pi is.

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 23:21 GMT


Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
lloydkirk1989 Account Info
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I know this is completely of topic, but does anyone know how many daily and monthly visitors Ticalc.org recieves??

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 00:16 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
ti_is_good_++  Account Info
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Link.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 21:52 GMT


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anykey  Account Info
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Python Urllib appears as one of the browsers. That would be CalcStat.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2005, 14:32 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Jason Malinowski  Account Info

Hmm...I already HAVE written a program to calculate a million digits (yay for IA32 assembly!). But since I did 1,000,500 to take care of any round off errors, I then fit in "no more than 1 billion." Yay!

HAPPY PI DAY!!!!!!!!

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 00:14 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
calkfreak83  Account Info
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http://numbers.computation.free.fr /Constants /PiProgram /pifast.html

...Sorry, it wouldn't fit in the link box. I used it to get 128,000,000 digits on my computer. You can get as many as can fit in your computer's memory provided you want to take a load of time to get to it. It took around 5 hours to get to 128,000,000 for me. All you have to do is type in what method of calculation you want to use, how you want the data to be outputted, and how many digits to go to and your done :). Of course, it is explained more thoroughly in the manual.

*Bows before crowd* :-P (But I didn't write it...)

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 04:01 GMT

Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
calkfreak83  Account Info
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Wow... scratch that.. I just re-ran that program, and I got 128,000,000 digits in just under 30 min... not too shabby :).

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 04:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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My computer does one million digits in 7 seconds. I need to get an Opteron system with 16 GB of RAM and a 500 GB hard drive so I can compute pi all day long...

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 06:51 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Florian Sonnenberger Account Info
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I got 1,000,000 digits in 2.30 sec with QPi (link).
It seems to be faster than PiFast on my machine (P4/2.66 GHz/768 MB RAM).

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 17:21 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
guitarman  Account Info

opteron was good in its day, but you definitely need to go with AMD FX-55 64-bit processor. It is hands down the absolute processor on the market (if you can afford it). Although, if you go opteron you can set up dual motherboards, so i do see where the extra memory factor comes into play. I still say go AMD64. NEVER BUY A P4!

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 22:15 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Opteron's can't handle 16GB RAM. They're 32-bit.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 13:53 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Michael Vincent  Account Info
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No...Opterons are the top of the line 64-bit processors from AMD. They can address 256 terabytes.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 03:10 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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AUUGGH!!! I've succumbed!!! Please replace the glaringly incorrect "Opteron's" with the far more pleasing "Opterons".

And, while I'm at it, Oops, I didn't realize Opterons were 64-bit. My bad.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 17:40 GMT


Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Travis Evans  Account Info

"Other platforms (linux, sun, ...) are not available yet."

"The source code of PiFast is not available."

Why not release it under the GPL?

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 06:59 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
calkfreak83  Account Info
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I got no clue... I didn't write it...

Reply to this comment    18 March 2005, 02:30 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Travis Evans  Account Info

Interesting how there isn't a "No" option. :-)

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 07:13 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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Where's the "I already did" option?!?!?!

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 17:55 GMT


Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
redsoxfan Account Info

I agree.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 19:26 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
redsoxfan Account Info
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I have written a program called Pi Expansions for the 83 Plus which, while it doesn't calculate pi to any more digits than the display can handle, the expansions of pi are very interesting. Click on the link to download it.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 18:18 GMT


Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
katmaster200 Account Info

Sounds boring. I'd rather make a cool asm game

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 05:29 GMT


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anykey  Account Info
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Pi == EXCITING!
Real men calculate Pi in their heads.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2005, 14:34 GMT


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no_one_2000_  Account Info
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Hahaha, strictly calculating it in your head, I don't see how anybody could get more than two digits of accuracy without knowing anything of pi beforehand. :-P

Otherwise, I can "calculate" 165 right now.

Reply to this comment    17 March 2005, 23:10 GMT


Re: Re: [ ! ]
anthony C  Account Info
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Check out the link.

There was a man named Zacharias Dase who lived in the mid 1800's, who was an absolute mathematical prodigy. He could do awsome calculations in his heads, and did them perfectly and quickly. A mathematicican once hired him to calcuate pi in his head. It took him 2 months, but he calcuated 200 digits of pi, perfectly.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 17:31 GMT


Re: Re: Re: [ ! ]
anthony C  Account Info
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arggg... Just realized (day later) that the URL somehow got cut off (.html missing at end). The URL for this post should work.

Reply to this comment    21 March 2005, 05:08 GMT

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