Calculated pi with 487 billion digits by diskized GMP

[Dennis Clarke]

On 9/1/23 23:17, American Citizen wrote:
> If someone wanted to do some useful work, calculating Viggo Brun's 
> constant to 100 places might be a good first step.
> 
> Brun's constant has to do with the sums of the reciprocals of twin 
> primes, such as 1/2 + 1/3 + 1/5 + 1/7 + 1/11 + 1/13 + 1/17 + 1/19 + etc 
> (where 1/2+1/3 is the exception of the twin primes be exactly 2 apart)
> 
Care to explain why that would be particularly useful?

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