Question

Calculating 100 Trillion Digits Of Pi

Answer 1

They were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t think if they should

Answer 2

Pretty pointless

Answer 3

It's more a computer science news than a math news but it's impressive (5 months, 128 vCPUs and 864 GB RAM, 515 TB used).

In the same spirit, i like the energy around Mersenne primes.

Answer 4

it took 23 hours, 31 minutes, and 7,651 seconds?

what the fuck went wrong here

Answer 5

An incredibly boring, uninteresting and useless computation!

Imho

Answer 6

It would be more impressive to show the factors of pi, be they two, three or more

Answer 7

Were there any repeating strings of digits?

Answer 8

*yawn*