Saturday, 7. December 2002

Japan Pi Value Calculation Earns Record


team of researchers at a leading national university have set a world record by calculating the value of to 1.24 trillion places of the researchers said Friday. Professor Yasumasa Kanada and nine other researchers at the Information Technology Center at Tokyo University calculated the value for pi with a Hitachi supercomputer over 400 hours in September, project team member Makoto Kudo said.

¬> Associated Press

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