This Computer Just Calculated Pi To a World Record 5 Trillion Digits
Yesterday, Alexander Yee and Shigeru Kondo announced that they had set a new Pi world record, calculating it to five trillion digits—some 6TB of data—using a single custom built computer. The five trillionth digit? It’s a 2. Kondo, a Japanese engineer, built the $18,000 machine, and Yee, an American computer science student, supplied the software:…
