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From: johne@hp-vcd.HP.COM (John Eaton)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: PI
Message-ID: <1410003@hp-vcd.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 90 18:07:29 GMT
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< IN excess of 33,000,000 places, as I recall, there are several different
< algorithms that have been used. Most organizations that have been involved in
< calulating pi, have given up through lack of interest and / or significant
< return.
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Nope, its Federal Law. Calculating Pi is a very dangerous operaton. What if
some researcher discovers that Pi repeats after 100,000,000,000 digits? The
universe as we know it would then cease to exist. Congress was made aware of
this and passed a law  prohibiting the calculation of Pi past ten million
digits. The only organization authorized to conduct research in this area
is a special branch of the Armys Doomsday Machine research operation. They
have machines designed so even if one  discovers the answer that it will not
tell anyone about it. 


John Eaton
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