SuperPi on GPU, were going CUDA

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is it necessary to calculate pi with the graphicscard?



it took William_Shanks 15 years to calculate pi with 707 digits by hand in 1873 but it had an error in it, the first 527 decimals was correct, which wasnt found until 1943 by ENIAC, one of the first computer's
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shanks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi
Memorizing digits
The Guinness-recognized record for remembered digits of π is 67,890 digits, held by Lu Chao, a 24-year-old graduate student from China.[35] It took him 24 hours and 4 minutes to recite to the 67,890th decimal place of π without an error



Stu's pi page
OF ALL THE ONE'S TESTED
THE FASTEST PI PROGRAM
that will run on your PC is....
http://home.istar.ca/~lyster/pi.html


Software for calculating pi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Softwar...ulating_%CF%80