I think they needed about 7.2 TB of disk space. It would be possible to adapt the theta code we used for the trillion triangles problem to do this computation. But it would be a massive job. At present there is only multiplication, let alone square root.
Bill. On Jan 6, 6:58 pm, Tim Joseph Dumol <[email protected]> wrote: > There's more information here:http://bellard.org/pi/pi2700e9/index.html > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:39 PM, Dr. David Kirkby > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > > John Cremona wrote: > > >> According to this: > > >>http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8442255.stm > > >> someone has just computed pi to 2.7 trillion digits on a "desktop > >> computer". The article does not mention software. > > >> How well would Sage do? > > >> John > > > For something on the BBC web site, that is amazingly short of actual facts. > > Not only does it not mention the software, but nor the hardware - except the > > size of the disk drive to hold the number. > > > Dave > > > -- > > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > > [email protected]<sage-devel%2bunsubscr...@googlegrou > > ps.com> > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > > URL:http://www.sagemath.org > > -- > Tim Joseph Dumol <tim (at) timdumol (dot) com>http://timdumol.com
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