"Many Digits" Friendly Competition

3 and 4 October 2005

Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Scoreboard containing the provisional results of the Many Digits Friendly Competition, as presented on the day of the competition

Thanks to everybody who participated in the competition and the discussions leading to the competition. The competition is now over. The final overall winners are: mpfr team from LORIA, consisting of Paul Zimmermann, Vincent Lefèvre, Patrick Pélissier, Laurent Fousse, Guillaume Hanrot and Jim White (website explaining the solutions of the mpfr team).

The mpfr team at work during the competition
The MPFR team at work: Paul Zimmermann, Vincent Lefèvre and Laurent Fousse

Ranking

You can download A breakdown of final ranking per problem.

The top 3 in the overall ranking and for each problem set are:

Overall Ranking (all 24 problems)
  1. mpfr team
  2. GiNaC/CLN
  3. iRRAM
Basic Set
  1. Wolfram Research Team
  2. GiNaC/CLN
  3. mpfr team
Intermediate Set
  1. mpfr team
  2. iRRAM
  3. GiNaC/CLN

Timings

You can now download the timings and the breakdown of final rankings that we extracted after the competition by rerunning all the solutions on the competition machine and using the same timing method for all systems.

Rawer Timings

You can also download the unrounded version of timings and the list of commands that was used to obtain them.

Provisional Rankings

Provisional rankings were presented during the competition (see above photo) and were extracted from ttyrec logs. There is no difference between provisional rankings and final rankings; only the timings used for final rankings are the definitive timings as they are obtained using the same method for all systems.