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Researchers Break Pi Calculation Record
By John Farrier in Science & Tech on Aug 18, 2009 at 1:29 pm
Researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan have broken the record for the number of calculated digits of the constant pi:
The T2K Tsukuba System is a 640-computer cluster with a processing speed of 95 trillion floating-point operations per second. The T2K calculated a total of 2,576,980,377,524 decimal places in 73 hours 36 minutes, which is a small fraction of the 600 hours taken by the previous record holders—Hitachi and the University of Tokyo—who calculated only 1.2 trillion places.
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