This Computer Just Calculated Pi To a World Record 5Trillion

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This Computer Just Calculated Pi To a World Record 5Trillion

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5 Trillion Digits, that is...

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I used to do pi runs back when I used to overclock computers. This is an awesome achievement.
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I bet the guys up at the Fort are laughing... Good for these guys!
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My favorite comment:
According to wikipedia:

...a physicist needs only 39 digits of Pi to make a circle the size of the observable universe accurate to one atom of hydrogen,
I'm wrapping my head around that calculation... pi (to 39 digits) * radius of known universe ^ 2 and you have enough precision (assuming you retain 39 decimal places?) to distinguish between two different atoms.
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I think they mean :

(0.1^39) < size of an atom

By circle, You can presume they mean the accuracy of the radius.

If you include R^2, you're implying that the difference in area of two circles (one scaled by 1+(0.1^39)), is less than the area occupied by an atom

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