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Title: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 14, 2015, 04:39:39 PM
Happy pi day everyone! Unfortunately I missed a very unique and special time this year in particular, because of 2015. March 14th '15 9:26:53 AM is what I mean. Funnily I didn't really realize this until now, but then I saw that the year was in the pi digits. :P

Who here woke up for pi second (or even 1/100 of pi second)?
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: CKH4 on March 14, 2015, 04:41:29 PM
PM works too right?
Anyway this is a very exciting day. Happy π day!

Edit. Oooh. I woke up for pi millisecond.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Yuki on March 14, 2015, 04:42:24 PM
I've set up my alarm for that, my mom as well :P

But yeah, PM would work as well.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 14, 2015, 04:51:52 PM
i've slept right through, and don't you guys mean PiM? :trollface:
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 14, 2015, 05:14:59 PM
PiM my ride? :trollface:
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 14, 2015, 05:22:27 PM
Yep, pi millisecond would work. Too bad this won't happen for another 100 year now.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 14, 2015, 05:24:46 PM
Quote from: Eiyeron on March 14, 2015, 05:14:59 PM
PiM my ride? :trollface:
(http://i.imgur.com/5dzJwMm.jpg)

Quote from: DJ Omnimaga on March 14, 2015, 05:22:27 PM
Yep, pi millisecond would work. Too bad this won't happen for another 100 year now.
Don't you mean pilliseconds? :trollface:
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Yuki on March 14, 2015, 05:49:07 PM
EDIT (DJ): Link removed since it could crash people's computers/devices

I'll just leave that here.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 14, 2015, 05:50:04 PM
lol that eats all my CPU
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: bb010g on March 14, 2015, 05:50:31 PM
Happy ½τ day all!
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: CKH4 on March 14, 2015, 05:59:40 PM
That literally just killed my phone. I had to hold down the power button for 15 seconds to restart.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Yuki on March 15, 2015, 01:26:54 AM
It's Pi second PM!

EDIT: Missed by a second, I blame HTTP overload. Also yeah, that site is pretty CPU intensive.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 15, 2015, 03:25:19 AM
Oh right, I forgot about Pi second PM. But I guess it's only for 'murica and older Canadians who still use the 12 hours system. :P

Also juju please do not link to sites that can freeze people's computer. I removed the link.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 15, 2015, 09:19:05 AM
But the site was cool. D: You should have edited in a warning instead.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 15, 2015, 09:25:56 AM
Yeah something like "Warning, for entertainment purposes, this site will melt your CPU(s), do you want to continue?" ;p
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 15, 2015, 11:22:42 AM
Yes. I think that's the proper kinda of message. :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 16, 2015, 06:27:29 PM
Quote from: Eiyeron on March 15, 2015, 09:25:56 AM
Yeah something like "Warning, for entertainment purposes, this site will melt your CPU(s), do you want to continue?" ;p
Someone with an high end CPU should just record a vid of it. :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 16, 2015, 06:31:07 PM
My CPU is quite high end, though it laggs quite a bit
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 16, 2015, 07:41:37 PM
I have a 4GHz i7. :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: CKH4 on March 16, 2015, 07:56:01 PM
So expensive.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 05:08:39 PM
2.5 with TB to 3.5, 's'not that bad for a laptop, heh.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 17, 2015, 05:43:31 PM
TB?
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 06:02:40 PM
TurboBoost. The thing which will turn on only when not all your logic cores are used intensively.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 17, 2015, 06:09:10 PM
ohh, sounds effective :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 06:15:28 PM
Actually, I've never seein it running at max speed. The most I used was 3GHz but most of times, HyperThreading is quite fine as 8 (virtual) cores @ 2.5GHz are way enough for me.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 17, 2015, 07:53:16 PM
Pffft. i only have 4 <_<
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 07:54:14 PM
I have 4 physical cores, but if you have HT, a core could use the registers it doesn't use to emulate a second core.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 17, 2015, 08:01:47 PM
oh thats quite cool actually
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 08:34:28 PM
Quite, it is. (-_(//)); YOu'll probably use more often HT than TB though as they're exclusive and only the CPU decides of it's performances policy IIRC.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 18, 2015, 06:26:21 AM
I always wondered if my computer had 8 virtual cores or 4. I think it's 4 since it's quad core and a 1st gen i7, but from the task manager I wasn't sure the first time I checked. I should google it. Not that it matters, though, since my computer is over 5 years old now (it does the job very well for most of my tasks, though)
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 18, 2015, 06:49:16 AM
Go to ark.Intel.com (Duck Duck Go !bang : !ark), you'll get all the info you want and even more.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 18, 2015, 04:04:21 PM
Or use CPU-Z.
on a side note: http://www.tilera.com/products/?ezchip=585&spage=686 O.O
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 18, 2015, 10:18:53 PM
Quote from: Eiyeron on March 17, 2015, 08:34:28 PM
Quite, it is. (-_(//)); YOu'll probably use more often HT than TB though as they're exclusive and only the CPU decides of it's performances policy IIRC.
Well I use both simultaneously all the time. :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 18, 2015, 10:31:52 PM
You can't really use them both at the same time as the processor scale the power with the current used cores and temperature (after all I don't really know about these tech, so...)
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 18, 2015, 11:43:49 PM
Well my cooler can handle the extra temp from turbo. Hyperthreading doesn't increase power use or heat because it basically just fills in the idles of either thread that runs on the core.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 19, 2015, 06:10:24 AM
Oh well I should ask techies for that kind of question.

I like to use Monte-Carlo method of guessing Pi. I like to use it as a performance test on calc after and before over clock.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 19, 2015, 09:30:48 AM
I use the 3+4/(2*3*4)-4/(4*5*6)+4/(6*7*8 )... method.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 19, 2015, 09:32:56 AM
That one seems fun to try on too. I should try making one on BASIC to compare clock speeds.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 19, 2015, 09:48:10 AM
Yeah its a really easy method, and gives quite good results in relatively few iterations
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 20, 2015, 04:54:17 AM
Quote from: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 18, 2015, 06:49:16 AM
Go to ark.Intel.com (Duck Duck Go !bang : !ark), you'll get all the info you want and even more.
Thanks for the info. I found it: http://ark.intel.com/products/41316/Intel-Core-i7-860-Processor-8M-Cache-2_80-GHz

4 cores and 8 threads. Still a bit ancient I guess, though :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: novenary on March 20, 2015, 07:42:33 AM
Oh wow 2009. I had a core2duo machine from back then lol.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Duke "Tape" Eiyeron on March 20, 2015, 08:28:16 AM
My desktop have a core2quad from this year! Noice!
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 20, 2015, 09:13:30 AM
i can't test my desktop atm. School pc :/
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: CKH4 on March 20, 2015, 12:10:28 PM
My school computers are amazing but somehow they lag so bad. They have 12 (24 because somehow Intel's cores count as like 2x) cores at 2.4GHz.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 20, 2015, 12:15:43 PM
We have some dells from like 2004 or something
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: CKH4 on March 20, 2015, 12:17:39 PM
That was how our school was but they let the technical group of people use superb computers.
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 20, 2015, 01:09:35 PM
Oh and i have an AMD CPU (yes yes not very popular i know) so i can't find info of it on intels site :P
but cpu-world says 4 cores 4 threads (its a FX-4300)

BTW: Anyone else noticed that the post users ever online was on pi day? :3=
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 20, 2015, 10:44:41 PM
Quote from: Cumred_Snektron on March 20, 2015, 01:09:35 PM
Oh and i have an AMD CPU (yes yes not very popular i know) so i can't find info of it on intels site :P
but cpu-world says 4 cores 4 threads (its a FX-4300)

BTW: Anyone else noticed that the post users ever online was on pi day? :3=
Yes, maybe people thought that CW opened on pi day? :trollface:

Also we're quite off-topic. I might try to split this CPU discussion into a new topic later :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 21, 2015, 12:19:57 PM
Well since pi day is over theres not really a topic :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 22, 2015, 03:37:37 AM
it starts in 360-ish days, though :P
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Snektron on March 22, 2015, 10:46:24 AM
But thats not a special one, that would just be 3/14... So 360 days and 99 years
Title: Re: Pi day!
Post by: Dream of Omnimaga on March 22, 2015, 11:14:00 AM
Indeed but still pi day nonetheless. :P (we could reuse this topic too)