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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. Irrational (pi != 22/7) by Omkar · · Score: 2, Troll

    Some people here seem to bee a little uninformed. pi has been proved irrational and trancedental (duh).

  2. Quiz by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 1, Troll

    What is the best way to waste CPU power?

    a) calculating another piece of PI
    b) running miss Setia Thome software
    c) installing Windows

    Share your opinion.

  3. Because of the hidden meaning of Pi. by wackybrit · · Score: 1, Troll

    Many believe Pi is some sort of message sent to us by our creators/aliens/Gods/etc. One day we might be able to decode Pi into a meaningful message, somewhat like they did in 'Contact'.

    Imagine if we got to the 200 billionth digit and it was like 'So now connect the red wire to the.' and you'd be hitting yourself for not decoding a few more digits.

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    mogorific carpentry experiments