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- From: hdev@dutiag.tudelft.nl (Hans de Vreught)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Calculating pi: help!
- Message-ID: <hdev.719107190@dutiag>
- Date: 14 Oct 92 23:59:50 GMT
- References: <Bw304E.LKu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <7557@charon.cwi.nl>
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- dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter) writes:
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- >In article <Bw304E.LKu@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> falatic@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (MacGyver) writes:
- >can get less, but not more. Just today I attended a lecture by Kanada
- >(Prof. Pi) who calculated pi to 1 billion digits, it took (if I remember
- >right) 7 hours on a Hitac 820; which is a Japanese supercomputer from
- >Hitachi; 2 nsec. cycle time.
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- So was I, I believe 7 hours was for the computation of pi and 18 hours for the
- verification of pi. Guess Kanada rushed the sheets too fast...
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