[Info-vax] VMS process communication

[Chris Townley]

On 18/03/2023 19:41, Single Stage to Orbit wrote:
> On Sat, 2023-03-18 at 10:51 -0400, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Looks correct but NASA doesn't use more than 15 digits for
>>> calculations within the solar system, the biggest error at that
>>> distance is the width of one's little finger.
>>>
>>> They do say that we only need 37 decimal places to encompass the
>>> entire universe (estimated to be 46 billion light years) to slice
>>> an hydrogen atom into two at that distance.
>>
>> The test was done on VMS Alpha so with no
>> /FLOAT qualifier the first result was a G-float
>> and the second result a pair of G-float.
> 
> My point was that nobody needs to calculate billions of decimal places
> for Pi. 15 places is more than though. And if we ever make it outside
> the Solar system, 37 places is more than enough.
> 
> I tire of hearing about people calculating Pi to billions of digits.
> What good does that do?

Some people just like to break records!

-- 
Chris