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Topic: Pi @ Home

Posted By: Gullanian
Subject: Pi @ Home
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 7:19am

Another jokeish website I have made (almost finished).

It's kind of like Seti @ Home but calculating digits of pi. Uses a screensaver etc etc. A really really pointless thing to do, made more pointless by the fact the results are in hexidecimal (formulas used only do it in hex).

I probably won't get very far but it's been fun! Maybe Pi@Home can beat the world record (1.2 trillion or whatever).

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Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 10:54am

What will the address be?

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 1:38pm

TBC!

Posted By: Gullanian
Date Posted: 09 April 2005 at 1:46pm

After studying the Pi formula it's not going to be practical. The project will now be called "Monkey1k" (Monkey One Thousand).

It's trying to answer how long would it take a thousand monkeys to reproduce shakespear.

Should launch soon.

Posted By: huwnet
Date Posted: 10 April 2005 at 3:30am

Isn't that a bit similar to this?

http://user.tninet.se/~ecf599g/aardasnails/java/Monkey/webpages/