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

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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?

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.

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!

I prefer "year/month/day."

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...

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.

I write my dates the European way: 16 March 2005. Saves a character.

but technically that would be read "the 16th of March 2005" whereas "March 16th, 2005" saves two words....

But I read it "March sixteenth two thousand five" or "sixteen March two thousand five." So it's the same or shorter.

you really read it "sixteen march" ? I thought it would be "sixteenth of march"

That's how normal people would say it.

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

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

I meant, computers running Windows XP.

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.

"Yes, I already have written a program to calculate Pi on the 83+"
Although Pi seems to be such a boring number.

I made one for the PC once...it did ~14 digits before crappy VB had overflow problems and stuff. ;-)

I calculated it to 100,000 once on my PC but used someone elses program. =P

Tat's easy. I calculated 32 million on my computer using someone else's program.

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