I've never actually fallen into this particular temptation, despite having developed an early multi-precision package for the Atlas I circa 1968. The nearest I came to getting sucked in was when my boss at the time walked in to my office with a visiting researcher who was investigating distribution of decimal(!) digits of sqrt2, and tentatively enquired whether a goodly chunk of same might be made available. My stock rose significantly after I reached into a nearby filing cabinet, and with studiedly elaborate causualness, deposited on my desk a lineprinter listing of the first 100K or so digits ... [the only such thing in my possession, which just happened to have been produced in the course of a recent software test]. But that was back in the stone age. Whatever one may think of the worth of the enterprise, these guys are astoundingly well-informed, well-equipped and determined. And one of them is at the same time finishing his degree --- not to mention apparently pursuing an enthusiasm for computer games. How do these fellows find time to eat or sleep? Fred Lunnon On 8/5/10, Hans Havermann <pxp@rogers.com> wrote:
There is no mention of method, timing, what computer , etc
http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html
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