Topic awaiting preservation: pi now available with 1270000000000000000 places.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/98912_pi07.shtml

so, anything more important than this?

Thanks, grumble. I have now added another fact to my already fact ridden brain.

I'd love to know what algorithm they came up with.

What can be more important that increasing the number of decimals in pi, since we allready had more than we will 'ever' need? Except that it is pretty fun in a wierd sort of way, this isn't important in any possible way



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isn't the point of finding more and more places, to eventually look for a pattern of some sort?

i mean isn't that supposed to be the reason why they keep trying to find more places?

Actually V, it does have very important uses...as does the Prime number thing...mostly, for encrypting, and such...

Hmmm.

Yeah, Webs is right, there are some very important reasons for this. For one, it is a way of testing out algorithms and computing power with a known constant. Second, it allows for advances in cryptography and random number theory. And the third is that, how do we know, somewhere along the line, we won't need this kind of accuracy?

genis, yes they still didnt find a pattern in that.