Recent discoveries in the legal profession have left scientists, many of whom still linger in the Newtonian world, scrambling to catch up in the field of New Causality. In a case last month, a judge in Sacramento ruled in favor of changing the value of pi, thus acquitting a tire manufacturer of making tires that were not fully round. An appeal by scientists was thrown out for lack of evidence when the small courtroom could not physically accommodate a fully expressed representation of pi. The oblong tires in question were produced at the retrial, the judge said they looked round to him, the defense played the race card, and the value of pi was changed to 2.9.
From an article in The New Yorker Magazine by Steve Martin
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Pi
20th September 1999
Adding Info. 4th October 1999
Dear folks,
Our latest record (decimals in Pi) was established as the followings;
Declared record:
206,158,430,000 decimal digits
ftp://www.cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/README.our_latest_record
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lawyers! stinkin lawyers- always changing the laws. All they needed was this---
hitachi.co.jp
CPU used was HITACHI SR8000 at the Information Technology Center,
Computer Centre Division (old Computer Centre,) University of Tokyo.
Full of the total CPU, e.g. 128PE's (theoretical peak processing speed for
the single PE is eight billion floating operations per second. One trillion
floating point operations per second for all PE's), were definitely used
as single job and parallel processing for both of programs run. |
