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David Fontaine wrote:
> these chaoticians would spend hours generating these
> numbers to a whopping four significant figures on their HP calcs, at
> least until they could sneak in a few minutes on the Los Alamos Cray...
It's kind of nice that times have changed, but some constants are still hard to
calculate to a high degree of accuracy. Brun's Constant, for example, has only
been calculated to 11 or so significant figures. I guess that the faster
computers get, the more people try to do with them. Kind of like Pov.
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