A Japanese man has broken the world record for calculating the value of Pi, reaching 5 trillion digits on a computer that he built himself. Professor Shigeru Kondo worked out Pi to 5 trillian digits Shigeru Kondo, a 55-year-old systems engineer for a food company based in northern Japan, easily surpassed the previous record of 2.7 trillion digits, set late last year by a French engineer. The calculation of the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter - usually abbreviated to 3.14 -...
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