Re: A86: permanent effects

To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A86: permanent effects
From: pricem@juno.com (Matthew R Price)
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 1997 23:29:33 EST
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Reply-To: assembly-86@lists.ticalc.org

It makes a great benchmark for the supercomputer in your CS building.

"My Cray XMP can calculate Pi to 5 million decimal places in fourty
minutes, ho about yours?"

>Why have people caried it out millions of digits, if they were to 
>proove
>nothing?
>
>Grant
>
>>> so, does pi ever end?
>>
>>No, its an irrational number, or its actually the ratio between the
>>Circumferance and the radius squared of a circle. Its irrational much 
>as ˆ2
>>and such is, it has no real answer, you will always be wrong unless 
>you
>>leave it as ¼
>>
>>---
>>I pledge allegiance to the Mac of Apple Computer Incorporated, and to 
>the
>>developers for which it stands, one platform, under Guy, 
>indestructible,
>>with creativity and multimedia for all.
>
>
>

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Re: A86: permanent effects

From: gussie@alaska.net (Grant Stockly)