RE: Science Porn
February 11, 2018 at 7:58 am
(This post was last modified: February 11, 2018 at 7:59 am by Succubus.)
(February 10, 2018 at 10:06 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Since 2016 Pi is known to more than 22*10^12 digits.
What I find to more mind destroying is the largest prime number:
23,249,425 digits. And it's divisible by nothing. Yeah I know.
Regarding Pi, will there come a time when people just give up for being a waste of time and resources. I mean it is indeed fascinating but isn't it rather futile?
Quote:Unlike the grueling 371 days that was needed for our previous computation of 10 trilllion digits, this time we were able to beat it in about 94 days.
The computation was interrupted 5 times - all due to hard drive errors. Furthermore, a bug was discovered in the software which had to be fixed before the computation could be continued.
Memory Statistics:
- 60.2 TiB of disk was needed to perform the computation.
- 9.20 TiB of disk was needed to store the compressed digit output.
- More disk space was needed to make backups of the checkpoints.
From here.
It's amazing 'science' always seems to 'find' whatever it is funded for, and never the oppsite. Drich.