Mathematicians Team Up with Supercomputer to Crack 248-Dimensional Object

23 03 2007

E8 projected onto two deminsionsThe team’s calculation, which took four years to prepare and three days of number-crunching on a supercomputer to finish, has produced one of the densest mathematical results in history: a table of numbers that fills 60 gigabytes of disk space. If typed out on paper, the researchers note, the results would cover the island of Manhattan.

Read the article in in Scientific American on-line


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