From the PDF you yourself linked: "Of course, no algorithm using a bounded amount of memory can generate a nonrepeating sequence such as the digits of p indefinitely, so we have to allow arbitrary-precision arithmetic, or some other manifestation of dynamic memory allocation."
MIT, Caltech, Harvard, and other universities in Europe
I understand what they mean, but it's a silly way to write it. Maybe Slashdot should have someone who edits submissions.
How would you revise it without adding anything?
Best I can come up with is
MIT, Caltech, and Harvard, as well as some European universities
As well as the resources it takes, in both CPU and storage, to compute pi out that far.
[If] you run Windows or OSX [at all], you're pretty much fucked.
FTFY.
The half-life of unusual British phrases in the US is less than 18 years.
would I even be visiting TIF's website anyway?
Indeed. A bicycle is never stable either (unless it's lying down).
And my brand new social network Rossy, not yet released, containing at present exactly one post which is not junk, has a S/N ratio of infinity.
So much for S/N as a metric.
"someday they will all be nuclear powers, and the art will become as formal and minor as flower arranging."
from "Black Easter", 1968
It's amazing. Just when I think Slashdot can't possibly find a subject I'm less interested in than Orbitz's decisions about what to promote to Mac users
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GoldbachConjecture.html
Goldbach's original conjecture (sometimes called the "ternary" Goldbach conjecture), written in a June 7, 1742 letter to Euler, states "at least it seems that every number that is greater than 2 is the sum of three primes" (Goldbach 1742; Dickson 2005, p. 421). Note that here Goldbach considered the number 1 to be a prime, a convention that is no longer followed. As re-expressed by Euler, an equivalent form of this conjecture (called the "strong" or "binary" Goldbach conjecture) asserts that all positive even integers >=4 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.
As well as the book, 99% of the posts on this topic are of the form "I have the REAL answer, it's
YOU DO NOT HAVE THE REAL ANSWER. STFU ALREADY.
Advice for Slashdot readers: do not get nutritional / lifestyle advice from Slashdot. Do not get it from books hawked on Slashdot either.
hirez or gtfo
I have a fantastic tax preparation system: Mark Frenchell. And the best part is it was built using a very small company of only two people: Howard and Josephine Frenchell.
Indeed, this is the same guy. It is part of the tragicomedy of race relations that such a talented math popularizer could be so markedly racist. I too loved Prime Obsession. I reread it every couple of months. Someday I may understand the last chapter...
No man is an island if he's on at least one mailing list.
