a miraculous kid

[zak]

a boy 13 years old calculated the first 458 million terms for the continued fraction of pi, look the picture:
http://neilbickford.com/picf.png



The continued fraction of pi:
Pi= [3,7,15,1,292,1,1,12,1,3,1....]
http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/09/15/from-pi-to-puzzles/
before using mathematica he used c#:
http://neilbickford.com/picf.htm
you can download a 1.4GB txt file for pi look the above link i have tried the first 30 MB, it has a new line after every fraction.
how can a 13 years old do all this:
http://neilbickford.com/
http://neilbickford.com/projects.htm

[Michael Clease]

how can a 13 years old do all this:

Because he doesn't have a girl friend :p

[zak]

i agree, wait until he is 16 years old. but a capable young student are too rare, his picture with Dr. wolfram i think he will receive support from him . in the blog http://blog.wolfram.com/2011/09/15/from-pi-to-puzzles/ at the bottom one person said "I’ve spent countless hours making programming tutorials for my children" , it is wrong to force the kids to learn programming, it is like forcing them to like art, dancing, etc. i think the best choice is to leave the children find their way alone with a slight guidance from parents.
but this young man is realy capable, i forgot to post his own blog: http://nbickford.wordpress.com/ the page are too lenghy, many ideas, many links, heavy for the browser.