Your random knowledge for the day

[wafflebunny]

People are always trying to calculate Pi to the furthest decimal point. Some guy just did it on a regular PC, and beat the previous record, taking 131 one days to do it. It takes over a terabyte of space to simply store the number. And he did it on a regular computer, compared to a supercomputer, which was used to calculate the first 2.6

Comments

[wafflebunny]

Fairly sure. I was surprised that it "only" took that little of pi to do it, but yes. The observable universe is "only" 2.6 x 10^26 meters in diameter. A proton being (give or take) one 10^-15 of a meter in diamter, we put them together for 10^41.

For a quark, we only need to go to 44 digits for the upper limit of quarks, and 47 for the lower (hypothetical) limit of precision.

[little_carrot]

But until you get to 5 trillion digits, you don't find the secret code...

[wafflebunny]

And then get arrested for copyright infringement, child pornography, DMCA violations, and a variety of other things.