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22 September, 2010

Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit

Pi record smashed as team finds two-quadrillionth digit

Researcher Nicholas Sze, of tech firm Yahoo, has calculated the 2,000,000,000,000,000th digit of the mathematical constant pi – and a few digits either side of it. He said that when pi is expressed in binary, the two quadrillionth “bit” is 0. Mr Sze used Yahoo’s Hadoop cloud computing technology to more than double the previous […]

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