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New Pi Computation Record Using a Desktop PC

Posted by kdawson on Monday January 4, 2010 @07:35PM from the more-digits-than-you dept.

hint3 writes "Fabrice Bellard has calculated Pi to about 2.7 trillion decimal digits, besting the previous record by over 120 billion digits. While the improvement may seem small, it is an outstanding achievement because only a single desktop PC, costing less than $3,000, was used — instead of a multi-million dollar supercomputer as in the previous records."

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Finally! by pEBDr · 2010-01-04 19:45 · Score: 5, Funny

Now I can finally get somewhat reasonable precision when calculating the radius of stuff!
Re:Thats nice and all... by LostCluster · 2010-01-04 19:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Only if you avoid the square routes.
He needs some help... by LostCluster · 2010-01-04 19:54 · Score: 5, Funny

1 TB data files... somebody needs to help him with the compression! Oh, wait a minute.
Re:One thing to say by Anonymous Coward · 2010-01-04 20:19 · Score: 4, Funny

HE USED TRICKS!!!!1111Burn the witch...eehh communist...eeeh climate researcher...eeeeh....PI guy.
Too bad... by hallux.sinister · 2010-01-04 20:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Only another four hundred billion decimal places, and they would have found the last one!
~Hal