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I don't believe them. Ask them to prove it. :)
Wow that's pretty impressive. I'm surprised no-one has bothered to break the record on a large cluster, at least for some time.
The previous record is 5 trillion BTW, calculated on a single workstation: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=221773
Edit: Oh after reading it properly, they haven't actually calculated two quadrillion digits, so the previous record still stands. I was pretty surprised by the huge number at first.
I predict the 3 quadillionth number to be....7.
I challenge anyone to prove me wrong :D
I'm going to go out on a limb and say that the seventeen-quadrillionth digit of Pi is a 3.
10% chance of getting it right until someone proves me wrong :)
[e!] - Argh didn't see BullDogg's post with the exact same theme. balls.
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It was a 50/50 chance. I would have guessed 1. Guess I was wrong.
So it's only the two hundred and fifty trillionth denary digit? :( Wouldn't a whole digit have been more useful?
Hope they did a memtest first.
Haha, there are ways of verifying a pi calculation but I'm not sure about doing it only to a small portion of numbers like this.
Hadoop, not Hardoop.
I was thinking that map-reduce seemed like an odd way of doing it. Must be some quite clever maths. Still, what a waste of CPU power. If I had 1000 computers for 23 days, I'd do something much more useful.
Like play Crysis. :)
Fold, and overtake Lowe :P.
The amount of points you could rack in on folding@home with that amount of processing power...