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A Much Bigger Piece Of Pi

Posted by timothy on from the mmmm-pi dept.

Punk_Rock_Johnny points to an AP story on Pi-obsessed Professor Yasumasa Kanada. A snippet from the story: "Kanada and a team of researchers set a new world record by calculating the value of pi to 1.24 trillion places, project team member Makoto Kudo said yesterday. The previous record, set by Kanada in 1999, was 206.158 billion places." Trillion! "

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  1. You know ... you would think ... by SuperDuG · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    ... that someone who could calculate pi to that precision would realize the number was infinite, no matter how much he tries, it will just keep going. Hence we will never see a "perfect" circle (unless you're talking the band ..) ... or will we?

    Pi is represented usually by a fraction or relatively simple equation, it's just the division that makes the number go on for ever. I don't understand why we must break pi down into a decimal when it can already be represented by a simple fraction. Figuring pi beyond the ten thousandth spot is overkill.

    However, it has always been a bragging right for many a geek to find as many places in pi as possible, and now that has been accomplished. I also have created a new world record. Taking the equation two divided by three I have found the 100000 trillionth digit ... it's "3" ...

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  2. Question: Who cares? by dh003i · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Really, does anyone give a damn? Who could possibly care? What do they expect, that if they calculate the value of pi out to 10^1000 they will learn the secret of life, in some secret message inserted into the number pi?

    This is about as useful as measuring the length of your erect penis (or clitoris) out to the trillionth decimal place.

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