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Pi Calculated To Record 2.5 Trillion Digits

Posted by samzenpus on from the almost-there dept.

Joshua writes "Researchers from Japan have calculated Pi to over 2.5 trillion decimals using the T2K Open Supercomputer (which is currently ranked 47th in the world according to a June, 2009 report from Top500.org). This new number more than doubles the previous record of about 1.2 trillion decimals set in 2002 by another Japanese research team. Unfortunately, there still seems to be no pattern."

3 of 432 comments (clear)

  1. There is a pattern by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The pattern is that Jews did 9/11.

  2. Re:Congratulations! by bh_doc · · Score: 0, Troll

    I feel exactly the same way, only about that guy who ran 100m really fast earlier this week, and many other sports events too.

  3. Well, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I'm glad our supercomputers are being used for this, rather than some impractical usage like, say, curing cancer.