At 01:40 PM 10/21/99 -0400, Darxus wrote:
>On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Philippe Trottier wrote:
>
>> Yes, I have learned math in French and its very far away. And my
english
>> start to get rusted in Finland. sorry for the confusion, I know that
PI is
>> irrational, but like the mersenne grouping , if you look at pi your
brain
>> might force you to see some period or bunch of digits that seems to
be
>> repeating...
>
>So you're not actually talking about a set of exact digits repeating,
but
>some other repeating pattern ? Hmm.
The current record for number of decimal digits of PI is 206 billion.
See:
http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/personal/jborwein/pi_cover.html
The record time for a million digits of PI on a PC is 52 seconds. The
record
for most digits of PI on a PC is 2.5 billion digits in a little over 10
days.
http://home.istar.ca/~lyster/pi.html
I remember reading an interview with the Chudnovsky brothers a long time
ago. I think they had computed about 4 billion digits at the time.
Then they
felt that there would be something interesting in the digits of PI if
you computed
them out far enough. They thought that this might happen by the time
you got to
1 trillion digits. The article never hinted at what they thought that
they might find.
By the way, these are real mathematicians versus the fiction that was in
the Sagan
book Contact.
Herb Savage
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