Calculate pi!

[Joe]

<k2xl> in 1998, i made a C++ program to calculate pi to a billion digits.
<k2xl> i coded it on my laptop (pentium 2 i think) and then ran the program.
<k2xl> the next day i got a new laptop but decided to keep the program running.
<k2xl> it's been over seven years now since i ran it. and this morning it finished calculating.
<k2xl> the output:
<k2xl>      "THE VALUE OF PI TO THE BILLIONTH DIGIT IS = "
<k2xl> mindblowing eh?
<k2xl> i looked in the code of my program, and i found out that i forgot to output the value :(.

[Blaze]

Most harddrives wouldn't function after being on straight that long. :)

Btw, its on BNET so it's totally bull shit, which makes it fit in this forum, GG.

[Joe]

If he's running a P2, then he should be on an OS modern enough (if you consider Windows modern..) to support hard-drive sleeping. It probably stopped around 5 minutes in, asuming he actually did it (which I doubt).

Also, that could be from IRC. A version of X-Chat I once used put those kind of brackets around the names.

[Sidoh]

If he's running a P2, then he should be on an OS modern enough (if you consider Windows modern..) to support hard-drive sleeping. It probably stopped around 5 minutes in, asuming he actually did it (which I doubt).

Also, that could be from IRC. A version of X-Chat I once used put those kind of brackets around the names.

The validity of that hypothesis depends on too many things.  I'd much sooner assume it's false.

Secondly, there's no way this is true.  If some idiot wanted to waste a perfectly good laptop for that many years calculating pi to the one billionth digit, then I wish he would perish.  I'm pretty sure pi was already published to the billionth digit, even in 1998.

Lastly, he never said he was using Windows...

[Newby]

It's from IRC and relatively old. :P

[Sidoh]

Since there are 10¹¹ milliseconds in a year, there is more reason to believe this is a load of bullshit.  That means it's taking 100 ms per digit calculation, which is highly unlikely.

It's from IRC and relatively old. :P

1998 + 7 = 2005

That's not that old. :\

[Newby]

I said relatively!

[Joe]

Man, if you weren't all programming geeks you'd think it was funny. =p

[Sidoh]

I said relatively!

It's not even relatively old.  What are we relating it to?  Other things posted in this forum?  I could probably find a bunch of posted dated before 2005.

Man, if you weren't all programming geeks you'd think it was funny. =p

It doesn't take a programmer to have common sense. ;)

[deadly7]

I said relatively!

It's not even relatively old.  What are we relating it to?  Other things posted in this forum?  I could probably find a bunch of posted dated before 2005.

Man, if you weren't all programming geeks you'd think it was funny. =p

It doesn't take a programmer to have common sense. ;)

Though we (hey, I made a hello world app!) generally have more common sense then your run of the mill idiot. :D