Is Bellard going to release all the digits to the public? It would be nice to extend A032510 <http://www.research.att.com/%7Enjas/sequences/A032510>and A036903 <http://www.research.att.com/%7Enjas/sequences/A036903> (both regarding how far you need to look in pi to see all 10^n strings of n decimal digits as substrings). --Michael On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 8:33 AM, Simon Plouffe <simon.plouffe@gmail.com>wrote:
http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/announce.html
was carried out by Fabrice Bellard in base 10 and 16.
The computation was checked using the BBP formula for the base 16. It took more than 100 days to compute everything, maybe much more of elapsed time.
This is the world record, the previous record was 2576 billion digits.
This is an historic moment since it is the first time an ordinary PC does better than a super-computer (and a lot of determination).
Congratulations to Fabrice Bellard!
simon plouffe
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