Pi-eyed Chris writes:
<< There was an episode of Star Trek where Spock determined that the ship's
<<computer had been compromised, owing to it making the same fatal error while
<<playing 3-dimensional chess. Spock regains control of the computer by having
<<it compute the value of pi to the last significant digit.
Ahhhh, remember that now. The Chudnovsky brothers did crash a Cray many a time
using their algorithm which is totally CPU consuming.
An excellent reference for the Day after Pi day. For your just reward
I hereby grant you 3.141592654 * 10**3 quatloos which may be used to purchase
any Oly Photo product.
Redeemable on Triskelion only, Mike
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