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piX - 1.0

calculate PI up to many decimal places

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All Time:	(4.6)
Version 1.0:	(4.6)
Selected Version:	1.0
Release Date:	2003-01-13
License:	Freeware
Downloads (version 1.0):	1,240
Downloads (all versions):	2,715

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Product Description:

piX is a program that lets you calculate PI up to a jillion decimals. Alternatively, you can use it to test your machine performance. Web page is in french, but program has support for english & french languages. It has also built-in help in english.

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.2
Mac OS X 10.1

Additional Requirements:

Mac OS X 10.1 or higher

Feedback Summary:

Version 1.0:
Overall Rating:	(4.6)	Features:	(1.0)	Support:	(3.0)
Ease of Use:	(3.0)	Quality / Stability:	(2.0)	Price:	(5.0)

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Slow. - Version: 1.0, 7/18/2003 08:28AM PST

123

and pi_css5 does 131072 digits in under 5 seconds (and 2.89 of cpu time).

You do not need to sacrifice that much cpu time to keep the UI responding.

It would also be nice to see if not different algorithms, different ways to format output (so you can, say, group decimal places into 10s).

Will this program,… - Version: 1.0, 1/17/2003 09:52AM PST

aleph0

when pushed to its limits, also spew out stock predictions and the number of God? That would make this app _really_ worthwhile! (must .. stop .. watching .. movies)

Nice...but what would… - Version: 1.0, 1/15/2003 12:46AM PST

Spotty

it take for it to use more than one CPU on a dual CPU machine?