New Pi calucations-Saw this on an AOL news Banner

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2002-12-06 11:05pm

Saw this on a news banner from the openning screen of AoHell. Thought you might find in intresting. Pi=3 my ass, fundies:

TOKYO (Dec. 6) - A team of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, one of the researchers said Friday.

Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 hours in September, project team member Makoto Kudo said.

The new calculation is more than six times the number of places in the record currently recognized by Guinness World Records - 206.158 billion places - which Kanada also helped calculate in 1999.

``We would need to verify it, but it sounds like Professor Kanada has broken his own record,'' Guinness World Records spokesman Neil Hayes said. He said a Guinness math expert would need to verify the data.

Kanada's team spent five years designing the program used in the September experiment, Kudo said.

The Hitachi supercomputer is capable of 2 trillion calculations per second, or twice as fast as the one used for the current Guinness record calculation.

Pi, usually given as 3.14, is the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle and has an infinite number of decimal places.

Such an extremely precise calculation of the figure isn't necessary for any practical scientific use, but researchers say it contributes to improving scientific calculation methods.

12/06/02 10:42 EST

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Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2002-12-06 11:13pm

Now those fundies can't say that PI=3

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2002-12-07 12:05am

They'll just come up with new excuses.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2002-12-07 12:06am

At what point have they ever been able to say that Pi = 3?

Lord_Xerxes · Post by **Lord_Xerxes** » 2002-12-07 12:14am

Well, i didn't mean that they were "able to" say it. But they did. Just more proof the heap on the mountain refutting them. Sorry about the word-bungle.

Shinova · Post by **Shinova** » 2002-12-07 12:20am

I'd thought people had calculated the final digit of PI already. Looks like they haven't yet. Or have they?

Durandal · Post by **Durandal** » 2002-12-07 12:30am

There is no final digit to pi. It's an irrational number. It just keeps going.

Exonerate · Post by **Exonerate** » 2002-12-07 12:32am

Durandal wrote:There is no final digit to pi. It's an irrational number. It just keeps going.

Not according to Contact

Edit: Got books messed up... Too many sci-fi novels.

data_link · Post by **data_link** » 2002-12-07 12:44am

Durandal wrote:There is no final digit to pi. It's an irrational number. It just keeps going.

And fundies are irrational people... they just keep going on forever.