Pi Day is here. This celebrated day is home to the honored, seemingly-endless number that is the circumference of a circle divided by its diameter: pi. As a gesture of goodwill to the art of mathematics, you can test your CPU out in its abilities to calculate pi using the y-cruncher.
The y-cruncher was the first multi-threaded application that could calculate the value of pi through multi-core CPUs, which is especially helpful in today’s age when even the most budget of contemporary CPUs have two, if not four, cores as an industry standard. This application has become a tool that’s used as a benchmarker for PC and gaming enthusiasts to test out the speed of their hardware and even has a world record table that shows the fastest computations recorded by the program. Many of these world records involve PCs that make use of multiple server CPUs that can cost upwards of $5,000 or more.
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