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Stories about the latest attempt to unseat ‘Bronco’ Brown in a new Labour leadership election, the folk stranded in the snow that has blanketed the country and bought it to a standstill and even the record-breaking tuna weighing 232 kilos that was sold in the Tokyo fish market for the equivalent of £109,000 have not interested me as much as one other jaw-breaking piece of news.
The story that grabbed my attention was that of the computer scientist who has computed the value of pi to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, beating the previous record by 123 billion digits. Wow!
I have no idea what value this piece of research is to the world at large, other than a possible entry in the Guinness Book of Records, but it seems to have taken a total of 131 days to compute and then check the result.
As a further piece of useless information, it has also been calculated that to recite the formula at the rate of one number a second would take more than 85,000 years. Wow again!
I wonder if this scientist could kindly turn his attention to the state of the economy, the cost of living, MPs expenses, the price of petrol and other fuels, etc., etc. Now that would be useful!
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Stories about the latest attempt to unseat ‘Bronco’ Brown in a new Labour leadership election, the folk stranded in the snow that has blanketed the country and bought it to a standstill and even the record-breaking tuna weighing 232 kilos that was sold in the Tokyo fish market for the equivalent of £109,000 have not interested me as much as one other jaw-breaking piece of news.
The story that grabbed my attention was that of the computer scientist who has computed the value of pi to nearly 2.7 trillion digits, beating the previous record by 123 billion digits. Wow!
I have no idea what value this piece of research is to the world at large, other than a possible entry in the Guinness Book of Records, but it seems to have taken a total of 131 days to compute and then check the result.
As a further piece of useless information, it has also been calculated that to recite the formula at the rate of one number a second would take more than 85,000 years. Wow again!
I wonder if this scientist could kindly turn his attention to the state of the economy, the cost of living, MPs expenses, the price of petrol and other fuels, etc., etc. Now that would be useful!
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