Pi Day: Breakthrough 'Obliterates' The World Record For Calculating Pi

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As Pi Day 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, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory , only needs about 37 decimal places to calculate the circumference of the observable Universe to within the width of

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