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Why bother calculating pi to 62.8 trillion digits? It's both useless and fascinating

  • Written by: Julia Collins, Lecturer of Mathematics, Edith Cowan University
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Swiss researchers at the University of Applied Sciences Graubünden this week claimed a new world record for calculating the number of digits of pi – a staggering 62.8 trillion figures. By my estimate, if these digits were printed out they would fill every book in the British Library ten times over. The...

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