You've just got a new computer..

[db]

..with over a terabyte of storage just waiting to be used.. what do you do? fill it with porn, like most normal people?

no - calculate pi to 2.7 trillion digits, of course!

"I am not especially interested in the digits of pi,"

well, tough, you've just filled your entire hard drive with them!

 

[cookie_monster]

i read this story on the bbc....

....but only because there was a very misleading headline of "Researcher finds huge piece of "

i had on the brain as the canteen had run out of by the time i got there and i was most disappointed.

i have to agree with Mr Bellard, i do prefer not to find digits in my


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[Wookie]

The really daft thing is, I remember learning at school that to measure the circumference of a circle the size of the known universe to an accuracy level of about a micron, you only need about 50 digits of pi.

 

[John Marwood]

Pi and Ail?