Boba Rhett Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 The First Ten Millions Digits In The Square Root Of Two. All hosted on Nasa's own site no less. Thanks all you clever guys n' gals at Nasa. I don't know were we'd be without you. I doff my hat. How much do you think it's costing them... well, costing us everytime someone loads all that?
darthfergie Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 This is very valuable information Rhett! It could be used for...for..um...erm...no...maybe...no...IT'S VERY VALUABLE!
Rogue15 Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 HOLY CRAP!!!! man i would HATE to have to check that for homework. i wish it was done in pencil.
Zygomaticus Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 is that the most useless bit of information ever calculated....i think so...
Zygomaticus Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 actually coming to think of it....that's not very much work at all! look at this simple C++ program int a = 2; cout << setprecision(10000000) << sqrt(a); That little piece of code would easily chug out the first 10 million digits of the sqrt of 2...except, if i tried it on my delicate computer it might hang up or get stuck, but for one of NASA's best computers that program would be a joke...just output it to a file and then copy paste it into html... or maybe not...but there sure is a simple way to do it
Tie Guy Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 Originally posted by krkode actually coming to think of it....that's not very much work at all! look at this simple C++ program That little piece of code would easily chug out the first 10 million digits of the sqrt of 2...except, if i tried it on my delicate computer it might hang up or get stuck, but for one of NASA's best computers that program would be a joke...just output it to a file and then copy paste it into html... or maybe not...but there sure is a simple way to do it That wouldn't work at all.....You didn't #include iomanip.h.....or iostream.h. Yeah, that is about how simple it is though, just would take a long time to get all those numbers. Hmmm...maybe i'll try it next compsci class, see what happens
Zygomaticus Posted October 25, 2002 Posted October 25, 2002 we have to assume that it has all been declared anyway, i tried it with 100 and 150 and it still gives me the first 20 or so digits only --> also might depend on what compiler you use But that's only an intro program, i'm sure there are ones more complicated than that that could output 1 million
Jatt13 Posted October 26, 2002 Posted October 26, 2002 man, if i had just seen that a little earlier! that was that was on jepardy the other night, and i could have shocked everyone! to bad.
Breton Posted October 30, 2002 Posted October 30, 2002 You know, NASA spent serveral billion dollars to construct a pen that would work in space. The russians simply brought a pencil...
Darth Homer Posted October 31, 2002 Posted October 31, 2002 I'VE DONE IT!! I'VE SUCCESSFULLY FIGURED OUT WHAT THE NEXT NUMBER IN THE SEQUENCE IS.............wait....I had it.........damn......uhhhh......OH YEAH!......IT'S...UH....7..... Take THAT, Nasa!
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