Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Euler's and Fermat's last theorems, the Simpsons and CDC6600" video.

  1. 16:14 One thing that makes this sort of thing easier nowadays is the existence of interactive languages like Python that have built-in infinite-precision integer arithmetic. No rounding errors if you avoid fractions!
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  2.  @rucker69  My 1970s-vintage TI-58C could show 12 digits, and actually calculated internally to a bit more than that.
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  3.  @rucker69  My 1970s-vintage TI-58C could show 12 digits, and actually calculated internally to a bit more than that.
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  4. 9:45 Spot the fine-structure constant!
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  5. 15:07 the CDC 6000 series were designed by computer hardware genius Seymour Cray. The company was set up to sell conventional business machines, and really had no idea what to do with the fastest computers in the world that he had created for them. Competitor IBM also hated them and tried to kill the company. Today, it appears there is just one 6000-series machine still operating in the whole world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Zt03YsMyW4 Cray later left CDC to form his own company to concentrate on making supercomputers. You may have heard of it ... what was it called again ...
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  6. 👍 Amazing bit of work 👍 (I don’t know why YouTube has started duplicating my comment postings ... I only pressed “COMMENT” once each time ...)
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