Archive for March 14th, 2010

“I’m Peter Graves, and I was wondering if you could direct me to the natatorium, as I am attending a swim meet.”

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

Obit watch. I’ll link to full obits when they go up. (Edited to add: NYT obit. LAT obit.)

I still think Mission: Impossible was one of the great TV series of the 1970s. (You can find M:I openings on YouTube, but oddly, pretty much all the ones I found did not include Peter Graves, or were from the later incarnations of M:I.)

And I will confess that I’ve actually sat through Red Planet Mars.

(Hattip. Yes, I chose to go with the more obscure reference. You were expecting gladiator movies?)

Happy Pi Day.

Sunday, March 14th, 2010

The advent of digital computers in the 20th century led to an increased rate of new π calculation records. John von Neumann et al. used ENIAC to compute 2037 digits of π in 1949, a calculation that took 70 hours.

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