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In August, 2010, [Alexander Yee] and [Shigeru Kondo] won a respectable amount of praise for calculating pi to more digits than anyone else. They’re back again, this time doubling the number of digits to 10 Trillion. The previous calculation of 5 Trillion digits of Pi took 90 days to calculate on a beast of a workstation. [...]

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As you well know, today is March 14th – aka “Pi Day”. Celebrated in math classrooms around the country, this truly is a celebration that belongs to the geeks. Here at Hack-a-Day, we too love Pi day, though we might not outwardly celebrate it with as much gusto as expressed by some of our readers. [...]

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