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Re: Pi upto a Billion Digits

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• Subject: [mg75682] Re: [mg75637] Pi upto a Billion Digits
• From: Murray Eisenberg <murray at math.umass.edu>
• Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 06:00:28 -0400 (EDT)
• Organization: Mathematics & Statistics, Univ. of Mass./Amherst
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Essentially no time at all!

Upon trying to evaluate the cell on my Windows XP machine with 2GB of 
RAM, I got an immediate "No more memory available. Mathematica kernel 
has shut down." message.  (This is with my normal complement of other 
programs running: Thunderbird, Firefox, and all sorts of background 
utilities including Google Desktop indexing, background degragger, AV, 
anti-spyware, and firewall.)

Raj wrote:
> hi!
> 
> Could somebody tell me if they ever tried finding Pi upto a billion
> digits using the N function:
> N[Pi,10^9] and how long did it take?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Raj
> 
> 

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    • From: Raj <rajanikanth@gmail.com>