I believe that was the point, Moose. Spock knew there is no end to the
calculation of Pi, thus the computer would be so occu"pi"ed that the
corupted program would be overwhelmed.
Charlie
On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 5:19 AM, Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 3/15/2016 5:22 PM, Chris Trask wrote:
>
>> There was an episode of Star Trek where Spock detrmined that the
>> ship's computer had been compromised, owing to it making the same fatal
>> error while playing 3-dimensional chess. Spock regains control of the
>> computer by having it compute the value of pi to the last significant digit.
>>
>
> Significant? How defined?
>
> There is no end. "Being an irrational number, π cannot be expressed
> exactly as a fraction (equivalently, its decimal representation never ends
> and never settles into a permanent repeating pattern)."
>
> Have done a disservice to what Spock actually said/did?
>
> Fact Checker Moose
>
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> What if the Hokey Pokey *IS* what it's all about?
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