On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jeramy Ross wrote:
[...]
> On Sun, 08 Jan 2001, Francois Gouget wrote:
> > Note that the above (and the article) is incorrect/misleading.
>
> First off, I appologize that I gave an incorrect refrence to digit
> instead of bit.
I apologize too.
My intention was not to sound harsh or imply that you were trying to
mislead people. I just wanted to try to straigthen this issue, which I
almost managed to do ;-) :
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Herb Savage wrote:
> .> So now we know the first few million decimal digits of Pi (and
> thus
> > about three times as many bits)
>
> Actually, that's over 200 billion digits on a super computer or over
> 12 billion digits on a personal computer see:
>
> http://home.istar.ca/~lyster/supercomputer.html
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