Every year, Apple selects 350 students worldwide who are given the chance to attend the infamous worldwide developers conference, WWDC, in San Jose, fully free of charge. Applicants are judged on a coding submission and written essays.
My submission is built around calculating mathematical constants, like Pi
, e
and the golden ratio
. To be able to calculate these constants with thousands of digits of precision, some behind-the-scenes tooling was required. It all comes together in a vintage 1980s Macintosh.