btw, its international PI Day
As
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rolls around for another year, researchers at StorageReview, a leading publication in enterprise IT, have a fitting number to celebrate: A world-record calculation of the mathematical constant π (pi) to a mind-boggling but extremely satisfying 314 trillion digits.
That's 314,000,000,000,000 decimal places for a number that,
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, only needs about 37 decimal places to calculate the circumference of the observable Universe to within the width of a hydrogen atom.
"StorageReview has reclaimed the pi crown with 314 trillion digits," wrote StorageReview lab director Kevin O'Brien in a
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.
"The result wasn't just beating the existing pi record; we obliterated it across numerous metrics. Nothing comes close to our run in terms of performance, power consumption, and most impressively, reliability. We are also the only large-scale pi world-record run without a second of downtime."
you need PI to calculate how to make enough coins to buy Members+