{"id":847,"date":"2004-01-27T12:05:31","date_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2004\/01\/27\/incredibly-large-numbers-seti-at-home\/"},"modified":"2004-01-27T12:05:31","modified_gmt":"2004-01-27T20:05:31","slug":"incredibly-large-numbers-seti-at-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2004\/01\/27\/incredibly-large-numbers-seti-at-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Incredibly large numbers.. Seti at Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just thought this issue with scale was kind of cool. Lifted from <a href=\"http:\/\/setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu\/newsletters\/newsletter8.html\">SETI@Home<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There&#8217;s a third type of incorrect result that occurs, too. Sometimes, very rarely, a computer will get the wrong answer to a calculation for no apparent reason. This appears to happen about one out of every 3,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations. If you let your computer run SETI@home for a thousand years, it would get the wrong answer once. (Of course by then your computer would have failed for some other reason). But since SETI@home gets a thousand years of CPU time every day, we see one or more of these failures per day.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just thought this issue with scale was kind of cool. Lifted from SETI@Home. There&#8217;s a third type of incorrect result that occurs, too. Sometimes, very rarely, a computer will get the wrong answer to a calculation for no apparent reason. This appears to happen about one out of every 3,000,000,000,000,000,000 calculations. If you let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/847\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}