🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <1993Mar13.171045.28174@netcom.com> noring@netcom.com (Jon Noring) writes:
> This next data point continues to add to the evidence that
> M(area)=~1.50659... or 1.50660...  May I suggest that we call the
> M(area) the Munafo number?

No, I don't think so.  Mathematical constants are named after people who
prove something important about them, e.g. their existence or their
definition according to a certain formula.  I have done nothing like that;
my work is equivalent to what the graduate students would be told to do
to support the professor's research.
 
> Now, here's where the GIPPP can come into play.  Would you be willing
> to act as coordinator and send out the executable as well as the parameter
> for subareas to compute?  Let's keep calculating and getting a better
> approximation.   I see a paper coming out of this work.
 
Yes, in fact, I would be willing to supervise such a project.  However:
 
* "Executable" is not possible.  We'd have source code, and I'll have to
  write my own version of luams.c because I need a couple of new features
  in order to make it work effectively as a GRIPP program.
* Don't consider taking part unless you have at least a 486DX 50, or a 68040,
  or a RISC-based workstation, or free time on a mainframe that's faster than
  the above.   Why?  Because each person's part will take an entire day to
  run on a SparcStation or equivalent.
* It will take me at least a week to write the program and to determine the
  appropriate number of iterations for the project.  The grid size is
  already decided: it would be the upper half-plane at 262144x131072.  The
  number of iterations will probably be either 1048576 or 2097152.
 
So, if you would like to participate, let me know by e-mail.  If you have
comments, post 'em here or mail them to me if you're shy.
 
Please NOTE: The project is *not* starting yet.  I just want to know who's
interested. If we start, I'll post again to let everyone know and supply
the source code.
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