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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?
Jonathan Katz  Account Info
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Your answers are not limited to using a calculator; writing a program for a PC is allowed in this survey question :)

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 06:30 GMT

Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
no_one_2000_  Account Info
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I've been thinking of doing this for a while. I think I'll for it, but 100 digits is good enough for any program I make. I don't want it to be too memory-intensive after all. It's not like I have a huge supercomputer built strictly for calculating pi... or do I?

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 07:03 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Yes, you do. It's called the Internet. All those 3.x GHz WinXP machines with no firewall are ripe for hacking and computing. Some few might even join voluntarily. If they can get 50,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000 copies of the Blaster worm worldwide, just think of what a DCoP (Distributed Calculation of Pi; as opposed to DDoS, Distributed Denial of Service) "bug" could do.

That number is, of course, 5x10^85 or 50x10^84.

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 15:11 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Timmc Account Info
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All those WinXP would just crash, causing a complete stuff up in the overall calculation.
I just noticed how impractical displaying the Date is as "Month/Day/Year". I mean, seriously, it's "Day/Month/Year". It's only logical to sort it in some ascending/descending order but NEVER jumbled.
HENCE: There is NO Pi Day!

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 05:26 GMT


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

I prefer "year/month/day."

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 06:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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MM/DD/YY makes sence to me because I would say "March fourteenth two-thousand five" for that date...having the numbers in the order you say them makes sence to me...although I suppose you could say "the fourteenth of March, two-thousand five"...either way...

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 17:59 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Timmc Account Info
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Whenever I'm forced to write dates formerly for one reason or another (usually in english classes) I would write "On the 14th of March 2005..." etc. It just flows more easily.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 06:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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I write my dates the European way: 16 March 2005. Saves a character.

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 13:49 GMT

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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but technically that would be read "the 16th of March 2005" whereas "March 16th, 2005" saves two words....

Reply to this comment    16 March 2005, 23:12 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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But I read it "March sixteenth two thousand five" or "sixteen March two thousand five." So it's the same or shorter.

Reply to this comment    18 March 2005, 23:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Jake Griffin  Account Info
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you really read it "sixteen march" ? I thought it would be "sixteenth of march"

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 19:53 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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That's how normal people would say it.

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 21:25 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
LonePhoenix  Account Info
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that's also known as the MLA format way of writing dates. my english teacher forces me to write that way, even though i prefer M/DD/YY

Reply to this comment    19 March 2005, 02:09 GMT


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

There isn't even that many computers in the world, is there?

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 06:54 GMT

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

I meant, computers running Windows XP.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 06:55 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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I just assummed that each idiot Windows user without Protection of some kind got about ten thousand and spawned five thousand for each of those ten thousand. Or something like that.

Actyally, I just typed a five and just sat on the zero for several seconds, then added the commas.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 13:41 GMT


Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Timmc Account Info
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"Yes, I already have written a program to calculate Pi on the 83+"
Although Pi seems to be such a boring number.

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 10:00 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
burntfuse  Account Info
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I made one for the PC once...it did ~14 digits before crappy VB had overflow problems and stuff. ;-)

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 22:43 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
Timmc Account Info
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I calculated it to 100,000 once on my PC but used someone elses program. =P

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 05:21 GMT


Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
CajunLuke  Account Info
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Tat's easy. I calculated 32 million on my computer using someone else's program.

Reply to this comment    15 March 2005, 13:43 GMT

Re: Will you ever write a program to calculate pi?
gnownoskcid  Account Info
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click on the link!

Reply to this comment    14 March 2005, 07:31 GMT

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