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Nicholas Sze of Yahoo Finds Two-Quadrillionth Digit of Pi

Posted by timothy on from the I'm-a-good-guesser-in-binary-too dept.

gregg writes "A researcher has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of pi — and a few digits either side of it. Nicholas Sze, of technology firm Yahoo, determined that the digit — when expressed in binary — is 0."

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  1. A serious question by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I've always wondered about these ridiculously precise values of pi - doesn't that imply a measurement (of circumference or diameter) smaller than the Planck length? What's the point of 2 trillion decimals of precision?

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