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Wally · Posted: Thu 29 Jul 2010, 10:36 Post_subject: (FILLED) Super Pi

Super Pi.

It would be nice and come in handy if we had this as a pet.

A benchmark to test all our Puppy computers.

There is a Linux version, already.

noryb009 · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 537

Can you give a link to a linux version?

Wally · Posted: Tue 03 Aug 2010, 13:31 Post_subject:

Here is link to source code for super pi, Linux version:

http://en.pudn.com/downloads147/sourcecode/embed/detail636946_en.html

noryb009 · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 537

I found this thread, which just gives you an executable you can run on any linux distro.

http://www.overclockers.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-405925.html

Wally · Posted: Wed 04 Aug 2010, 14:12 Post_subject:

I tried it, did you get it to work?

It produced a text file of some numbers..

noryb009 · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 537

Did you enter it in command line mode?

Try this:

1) Download the file
2) untar it by clicking on it, selecting "Select all", then "extract"
3) using ROX, go to where the files were untar-ed to
4) right-click in ROX -> Window -> Terminal Here
5) type :

Wally · Posted: Wed 04 Aug 2010, 22:45 Post_subject:

Thanks, I got it to work.

How, for example, would you set it to compute to 2 million digits of accuracy?

noryb009 · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 537

2 million in binary is 111101000010010000000 (yes, I used a converter). The number is 21 bits (digits), so you run:

Wally · Posted: Thu 05 Aug 2010, 15:45 Post_subject:

pretty sharp, thanks, I appreciate it.

noryb009 · Joined: 20 Mar 2010 Posts: 537

If that is all you need, then please edit your first post, and change the tittle to "[FILLED] Super Pi". If you ever need more help, edit it again to "Super Pi - need help" or something like that.