Vijay For Victory

Indian music maestro A.R.Rahman bagged two Grammy Awards for Slumdog Millionaire.

Following are the categories for which Rahman was given two Grammy Awards.

• Best Compilation Soundtrack Album For Motion Picture
• Best Song Written For Motion Picture

Let us all wish him best of luck to bag more Double Awards.

PI has always been an interesting mathematical constant. Most of the mathematicians in the world are using Pi to derive formulas.

Newton himself worked on the digits of Pi and spent a lot of time using one of the formulas he developed to get a few extra digits.

31 Dec 2009, Fabrice Bellard, a computer programmer/scientist from France, claimed the new world record for calculation of Pi, having it to nearly 2.7 trillion places. He announced that he used his desktop to calculate the 2.7 trillion digits.

By having 2.7 trillion digits, he had broken the previous record of 2.6 trillion digits by Daisuke Takahashi at the University of Tsukuba in Japan. The previous record was set using multi million Super Computers; where as the new record has been set using a desktop computer.

Few of the interesting facts about his findings.

• It took 131 days to calculate 2.7 trillion digits
• Used a desktop of Core i7 CPU at 2.93 GHz, 6 GB of RAM and 7.5 TB hard disks.
• Linux – Red Hat Fedora 10 distribution was used for this calculation.
• Desktop used to calculated the 2.7 trillion digits is worth less than 2000 Euros.
• The base 10 results needs 1137 GB  of storage space.

Let us wish him to continue his research to find more. This would definitely give a new dimension to Aribitrary Precision Arithmetic techniques.

Dear Readers,

I wish you all a very happy New Year 2010!

Pi (π=3.14159) is always an interesting mathematical constant. We all know what is PI? But have you ever thought about the etymology of Pi?

The below picture reveals the secret.

What an amazing coincidence?  [via neatorama]

Calculator Keys

Mobile Keys

I am always wondering why do we have two different ways of Keys Organization for Mobiles and Calculators.

If you have any thoughts, feel free to share in comments.

One fine day in London, a Sikh was walking down the road and he passes by the Indian embassy, as he was passing by he saw the Indian flag hoisted on the high pole right in front of the embassy.

Now as patriotic Sardars are, he saluted the Indian flag and was about to walk away when a British standing by stopped him and asked him why he saluted Indian flag.

The British told the Sikh, the Indian flag does not represent any colour of Sikhism in the flag; the saffron is of Hindus, Green for Muslims,White for Jains, the Dark blue circle for Buddhists.

As to why he was saluting, the answer was quite simple because it took lots of sacrifices by the Indians including Sikhs to gain the freedom and the right to hoist the flag of Independent India anywhere.

As to what represents the Sikhs, the Sardar asked the British, “Do you see that 20 foot high pole with the help of which the Indian flag is strutting high in the air ? ”

The British said, Yes… So ?

Well Mate, the Sardar replied, that Pole Represents Us !!!

Source : VJ

The above story is given by VJ in the comment section of “History of Indian Flag”. I thought it would be better if I published in a separate post.

iPhone 3GS

I bought a new iPhone 3GS this week which came along with unlimited Internet access. Started exploring iPhone and loading lots of Apps with too much of curiosity.