Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi

To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Re: [OT] Pi
From: RoniBarrett@aol.com
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:13:25 EDT
Reply-To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org


In a message dated 4/16/00 2:19:00 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
groman@thehelm.com writes:

<< People! Have you noticed that the algorithm actually takes about as long as
 calculating all previous digits! It's a huge sum function. It will take
 several years to get 10^100th digit for example(or more??)
  >>
As it is, they need to increse computing power by an order of magnatude to 
calculate one more digit on any of the irrational constants, and yeah, it 
takes a huge amount of power to find each new digit. The cool thing with 
these new quantum computers is that they can perform one floating point 
operation on many numbers at a time, even though their clock speed may be 
extremely low by our standards.

Jeff Barrett
Hybridsoft
Co-founder and Director of TI Programming
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