Submission + - Supercomputers Crack Sixty-Trillionth Binary Digit (energy.gov) 1
Dr.Who writes: According to http://blog.energy.gov/blog/2011/04/28/supercomputers-crack-sixty-trillionth-binary-digit-pi-squared, "a value of Pi to 40 digits would be more than enough to compute the circumference of the Milky Way galaxy to an error less than the size of a proton." The article goes on to cite use of computationally complex algorithms to detect errors in computer hardware.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
The article references a blog http://experimentalmath.info/blog/2011/03/Pi-goes-on-forever/ which has more background.
Disclaimers: I attended graduate school at U.C. Berkley. I am presently employed by a software company that sells an infrastructure product named PI.
