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Date: 2001-01-10 00:38:41

Perhaps we should write today down: I got back to my room and found my roommate still at large. (Or technically, I didn't see him, and the signin sheet reported him as still at large.) I woke up at 0800 for a brainstemstorming session for the Bluetooth project. My only class today got moved from 0900 to 1045. I returned to my room during the interm, watched a Simpsons episode, and worked on my code for the computer science club's prime pi contest. (Sum the (decimal) digits of pi and report the largest prime found, along with the number of digits required to get it.) My answer, so far: in the forty-eight million range, with ten million digits summed. I think my code will hold up (nearly) unmodified to the four billion integer limit; I took the time to code a very large array and then specified it for a very long bit vector, which I used to keep track of known prime numbers. It took inspiration in chapel (bet you can't guess who I was sitting next to) to figure out exactly how to make the very large array work. (I suspect that a large ammount of coding gets done on the back of chapel bulletins.) I continued coding after chapel and got the number hinted at above. (It stopped there because that's all the digits of pi I had. My options now are hunt down more digits through any means possible, or even write my own code to do it, which isn't actually necessary.)