Yahoo! boffin scores pi’s two quadrillionth digit
Last Updated on Friday, 17 September 2010 04:20 Written by External Post Friday, 17 September 2010 04:20
A Yahoo! engineer has calculated pi’s quadrillionth digit using Hadoop, the open source distributed number-crunching platform based on Google’s proprietary MapReduce technology. Hadoop-happy Yahooligan Tsz Wo (Nicholas) Sze set this pi world record on a
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Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi
Last Updated on Friday, 17 September 2010 02:00 Written by External Post Friday, 17 September 2010 02:00
gregg writes “A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi and a few digits either side of it. Nicholas Sze, of technology firm Yahoo, determined that the digit when expressed in binary is 0.”
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Christie’s: The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection
Last Updated on Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:20 Written by a2e Thursday, 26 August 2010 10:20
The Sze Yuan Tang Archaic Bronzes from the Anthony Hardy Collection
Sep 16, 2010
Christie’s: New York, NY, US
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