[AccessD] Pi day

[Bill Benson]

Reposted as former had an image not a link. If this dupes, apologies in
advance.

I wonder how fast this will do that.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1psf8DV2Rbi-fxnK-QpDniVWv6caKo8Zz/view?usp=drivesdk

It is the system I am having built as we speak. Can’t wait to have a modern
PC, my 10 yr old Dell Latitude  on Win 7 is getting hard to find any
software left that can run on it. MS 365 doesn’t!

BILL

On Thu, Mar 14, 2024 at 6:21 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> To celebrate Pi day I downloaded PiFast and calculated Pi to 1 billion
> digits.  On my laptop with 4 real and 4 virtual cores, using the disk for
> intermediate results in some manner (unknown) it took 105 seconds to
> calculate Pi to 10 million digits.
>
> On my much more powerful 8 core 8 virtual cores laptop, it took 70 seconds.
>
> OTOH  it took 7 seconds to compute without using the disk at all.
>
> Then I tried to calculate 1 billion places without the disk and the program
> just crashed.  Using the disk (SSDs on both computers) it took 58 minutes
> or so.
>
> Happy pi day.
>
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