The calculation technically only takes 12 straight days to compute, but they had many interruptions over the process, sometimes having to fully restart the whole calculation.
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solrize@lemmy.ml 15 hours agoYes, that’s the idea, it’s just that the “spoiler” likely only revealed something that was already known (that specific digit), or at any rate, something that could be computed on a much smaller computer and in less time. Mostly though, that’s a bit of mathematically interesting info.
I don’t feel like watching a video but maybe there will be a more informative article sometime. I wonder if they used some existing software like Y-cruncher: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-cruncher
alphabethunter@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
hakase@lemm.ee 14 hours ago
They did use Y-cruncher.
solrize@lemmy.ml 14 hours ago
Cool, yeah, the digits themselves are at most 0.5 byte each ;). I don’t know enough about the higher level algorithm to say exactly how the rest of the storage is being used. There is a book called “Pi and the AGM” about pi computation and similar algorithms that is supposed to be really good, but it looks over my head mathematically.