In August, 2010, [Alexander Yee] and [Shigeru Kondo] won a respectable amount of praise for calculating pi to more digits than anyone ... to calculate pi on a top 500 supercomputer, you’d ...
The first digits, 3.14, are well known but ... calculate that the two quadrillionth digit of Pi was zero - a calculation that would have taken 500 years on a standard computer at that time.
Now it's back with a new version, the Pi 500, with double the processing power of its predecessor. The first computers in my life were British-made Sinclair machines, comprising all the computing ...