hmmmmm pi

[armadilloben]

well after a furious discussion with my dad over whether pi repeats. i went to go find myself a pi calculator for my computer that would calculate pi via my processor and not by some java applet. i found one but it only calculates to 32 million decimal places. i was then proven wrong and apologized to him because it turns out it really does repeat after like 8 million decimal places. does anyone know of an application that will infinitely calculate pi like have it run in the background? does anyone here no of such a program? any help would me much appreciated


-ben

[Ronyx]

how long did it take you to calculate pi to 32 million decimal places lolz? must've been up all night =S

[armadilloben]

22 seconds im not kidding

[Ironcat]

22 secs for 32m ? No fricking way!

I use a program called SuperPi and my best is 27 secs to 1million.
The best I have ever seen or heard about was like 8 seconds to 1 million.

*edit* ...apparently the best I had heard about was a little off...

Famous Japanese overclocker who calls himself Memesama has set a yet another world’s record in overclocking Intel Pentium 4 processor. This time the well-known computer enthusiast achieved 7.30GHz speed.

According to the statement issued by Memesama in his blog as well as in XtremeSystems web-site’s forum, the system managed to calculate π (pi) number to 1 million decimal places in approximately 17 seconds, which is the world’s record of today. Core-clock of 7304MHz is also the highest speed Intel Pentium 4 processor ever achieved. Earlier clock-speed record breaking – 7.13GHz – also belongs to Memesama.

[tybrenis]

Wow. That's ridiculous. How does he cool it? What was the speed to begin with?

[Ironcat]

from the web...

In particular, Memesama used ASUS P5WD2 Premium mainboard powered by Intel i955X chipset, Corsair PC2-5400UL 512MB memory modules as well as Intel Pentium 4 670 processor with stock speed of 3.80GHz. The processor system bus was overclocked to 1537MHz; processor’s voltage was pumped up to 1.86V, significantly higher than default setting; memory latency settings were CL4 3-3-4, memory voltage was set to 2.26V. Liquid nitrogen was used for cooling down the microprocessor.

[armadilloben]

dude super pi was what i ran as well and i did it in 22secs or 22s i mean is 22s 22 seconds cause thats what it said

[armadilloben]

wait wait wait im relle sry i did 22 on 16 mill my bad dude sry sry sry ill run 32 in a second sry bout that
edit: aright i screwd up more things make alot more sense once you rtfm on 32 and 16 it took 22 seconds to complete the first loop not calculate the whole thing im very sorry for the confusion

[Ronyx]

wow, phew lolz

time for me to get SuperPI :D

[progbuddy]

w/ my Celery 1.8 GHz i get the initial value @ 1 minute 27 seconds for 32 million digits.

lmao @ celeron. after 5 mins one loop is finished w/ opera, norton, and MS office open.

[Ronyx]

how do i use SuperPI
i start it up and select the value, 32M. Then all i see are Loops. Are the loops how quick it completes the calculation? I waited for 13 Loops lolz.

[Ironcat]

Loops are how quickly it completes each PART of the computation...
At the beginning of calculating, it will tell you how many iterations (loops) it is gonna take.

1million Pi takes 19 loops

I started trying to do 32million but gave up at 6 minutes gone

[AJ@PR]

Hey guys! :)

Didn't have SuperPi... so I downloaded it... and ran it... for reference's sake, it's an ASUS P5W DH (I think.. :p), Core2Duo E6600, 2GB OCZ, ermmm... and a cool Logitech red-light mouse.

It ran in 24 minutes, 51 seconds.
"It" being the 32M setting/test/option/selection/thingy/go/calculation/piying.

Here's the screenshot :)
http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o196/45NN2121/SuperPiv1.jpg

HEY!!!
The boards still have the Santa!! w00t w00t w00t :D :D

:santa: :santa:

[Ronyx]

24min?


w/ my Celery 1.8 GHz i get the initial value @ 1 minute 27 seconds for 32 million digits.

lmao @ celeron. after 5 mins one loop is finished w/ opera, norton, and MS office open.

who got it wrong this time lolz

[Omega]

I got 1min to full calculation of 1m, That's with Trillian, ControlMK, FireFox, iTunes, and my plethora of security software open.

[Omega]

who got it wrong this time lolz

He said the initial value.

[Omega]

Pi to 32m for me: 56min

I was, however, running LimeWire, ControlMK, Lolifox (It's basically FF), Trillian, Watching youtube videos, and also security software.